These two patches add and use dtc as a submodule as per the RFC: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-01/msg05000.html
There is a remaining action item to mandate libfdt for arm/microblaze and PPC which is left as follow up work for after review of this series. Also fixed the configure to properly build pixman when cross compiling. changed since v1: Fixed cross compilation of submodules (new P1) Fixed passing of ARFLAGS to dtc submake Peter Crosthwaite (3): configure: Put cross compile flags in EXTRA_CFLAGS dtc: add submodule configure/Make: Build libfdt from submodule DTC .gitmodules | 3 +++ Makefile | 10 ++++++++++ configure | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ dtc | 1 + 4 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 160000 dtc