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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski81@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com, cooloney@gmail.com,
	rpurdie@rpsys.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:08:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430086106.16571.79.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150424121549.27b74b25@ja.home>

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 12:15 +0200, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> No matter what format of device tree OPAL produces, I assume that
> it must compile it from some sources.

Nope. Well... .C code maybe qualifies as "sources" :-)

> dtb file is a compiled form of human readable dts file containing
> Flattened Device Tree - a data structure for describing the hardware
> in the system.
> 
> Please refer to: http://elinux.org/Device_Tree

We are quite familiar with this, guess what architecture created the
whole flat device-tree stuff in the first place ?

In any case, in our case, the fdt is procedurally generated by firmware.

Cheers,
Ben.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski81@gmail.com>
Cc: stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com, cooloney@gmail.com,
	Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	rpurdie@rpsys.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:08:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430086106.16571.79.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150424121549.27b74b25@ja.home>

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 12:15 +0200, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> No matter what format of device tree OPAL produces, I assume that
> it must compile it from some sources.

Nope. Well... .C code maybe qualifies as "sources" :-)

> dtb file is a compiled form of human readable dts file containing
> Flattened Device Tree - a data structure for describing the hardware
> in the system.
> 
> Please refer to: http://elinux.org/Device_Tree

We are quite familiar with this, guess what architecture created the
whole flat device-tree stuff in the first place ?

In any case, in our case, the fdt is procedurally generated by firmware.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-26 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-22 21:45 [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-22 21:45 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-23  5:25 ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-23  5:25   ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-23 14:13   ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-23 14:13     ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-24  4:18     ` Stewart Smith
2015-04-24  4:18       ` Stewart Smith
2015-04-24 10:16       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-24 10:16         ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-28  6:59         ` Stewart Smith
2015-04-28  6:59           ` Stewart Smith
2015-04-28  9:10           ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-28  9:10             ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-24  5:30     ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-24  5:30       ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-24 10:15       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-24 10:15         ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-26 22:08         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-04-26 22:08           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-27 11:15         ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-27 11:15           ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-26 22:07     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-26 22:07       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-27  7:24       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-27  9:53         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-27 11:15           ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-27 13:47             ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-28 11:06               ` Vasant Hegde
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-03-20 11:02 [PATCH v2 0/2] LED interface " Vasant Hegde
2015-03-20 11:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver " Vasant Hegde
2015-03-20 11:04   ` Vasant Hegde
2015-03-25  5:21   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-25  5:21     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-14  5:40     ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-14  5:40       ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-14 15:20   ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-14 15:20     ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-15  6:26     ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-15  6:26       ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-15  8:42       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-15 10:15         ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-15 10:15           ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-15 13:12           ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-16  6:47             ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-16  6:52             ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-16  6:52               ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-16  8:51               ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-16  8:51                 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-16 10:26                 ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-16 10:26                   ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-16 11:34                   ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-16 11:34                     ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-20  7:29                     ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-20  7:29                       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-20 11:45           ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-20 11:45             ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-20 12:34             ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-20 15:20               ` Jacek Anaszewski
2015-04-20 15:53                 ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-15 18:50     ` Stewart Smith
2015-04-15 18:50       ` Stewart Smith
2015-04-16  5:07       ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-16  5:07         ` Vasant Hegde
2015-04-21 23:03         ` Stewart Smith
2015-04-21 23:03           ` Stewart Smith

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