On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:11:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 07:47, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 07:44:11AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 05:46, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Simon, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > With the EOL of python2 soon I've been looking at the > > > > > > > > > > Fedora U-Boot > > > > > > > > > > builds to see what it would take to move over to python3. > > > > > > > > > > There's a > > > > > > > > > > couple of issues building the bundled pylibfdt, the first > > > > > > > > > > is the > > > > > > > > > > Makefile hard codes python2, the second is that the > > > > > > > > > > generated > > > > > > > > > > libfdt_wrap.c doesn't seem to find the python3 version of > > > > > > > > > > Python.h > > > > > > > > > > (errors below). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It seems upstream now supports building pylibfdt with dtc > > > > > > > > > > 1.5.0 but I > > > > > > > > > > couldn't quite work out how this fits into the U-Boot > > > > > > > > > > bundled version. > > > > > > > > > > Is there plans to be able to support pylibfdt with python3? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sounds like we need to run the normal kernel script to > > > > > > > > > re-sync with > > > > > > > > > upstream? Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Seems reasonable, I'll keep an eye out for a patch series to > > > > > > > > test, > > > > > > > > it's quite straight forward to test from my PoV. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It won't be any time soon, sadly. Updating to the same dtc in the > > > > > > > kernel (so just v1.4.7+) causes both massive amount of new device > > > > > > > tree > > > > > > > warnings as well as several fail to link due to size growth > > > > > > > problems. > > > > > > > > > > > > For reference the kernel moved to v1.5.0-30-g702c1b6c0e73 in the 5.3 > > > > > > merge window. > > > > > > > > > > Also I sent a series for libfdt to reduce the size, as a first step to > > > > > syncing up U-Boot again. It needs work, but I expect to get back to it > > > > > next week. > > > > > > > > What's the latest on this? > > > > > > No new progress but I just emailed David again about my pending question. > > > > Should we perhaps sync including your proposed changes for now and > > re-sync once it's in? There's more than just Fedora folks unhappy about > > us being one of the last requires python2 things they support. > > OK I can try this, but there is a bit of work before we can move to > Python 3. I asked a month or two ago whether we should move to default > Python 3 for this release, but I don't think I got an answer so did > not focus on it. Then again, maybe I imagined it or missed it.
Hmm, I think I had taken your statement at the time as more of a declaration of intent than a question, sorry! -- Tom
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