From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: Could the DTS experts look at this?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:50:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212235058.GF21230@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B22E98.8040900@freescale.com>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:41:12PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure I'm entirely happy about storing the fragments under a
> > special node - but certainly u-boot could do that if it wants. What
> > would certainly be ok is to store various fragments as separate blobs
> > and fold them together as necessary. Which reminds me, I meant to
> > implement a "graft" function in libfdt.
>
> Most likely, U-Boot would strip out the special node after
> processing it. The idea is for the boot loader to customize the
> device tree based before sending it to the kernel.
Of course. U-boot can use whatever representation it likes
internally, as long as it's all fixed up by the time it reaches the
kernel. I just think using sepa`rate "device tree fragment" blobs
might be a better way of doing it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 23:30 Could the DTS experts look at this? Sean MacLennan
2008-02-10 5:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-10 6:05 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-02-11 17:57 ` Timur Tabi
2008-02-11 23:54 ` David Gibson
2008-02-11 23:56 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 0:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-12 0:36 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 18:51 ` Scott Wood
2008-02-12 23:17 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 23:41 ` Timur Tabi
2008-02-12 23:50 ` David Gibson [this message]
2008-02-12 15:44 ` Timur Tabi
2008-02-12 18:58 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-12 19:08 ` Timur Tabi
2008-02-12 19:34 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-12 19:45 ` Timur Tabi
2008-02-12 20:43 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-12 23:35 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 23:50 ` Timur Tabi
2008-02-13 0:10 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-12 23:26 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 23:47 ` Timur Tabi
2008-02-13 0:08 ` David Gibson
2008-02-13 0:15 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-12 23:21 ` David Gibson
2008-02-11 0:14 ` David Gibson
2008-02-11 2:40 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-02-11 3:11 ` David Gibson
2008-02-11 3:49 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-02-11 23:59 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 1:07 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-02-12 0:20 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 0:41 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-02-12 0:48 ` David Gibson
2008-02-12 18:52 ` Scott Wood
2008-02-12 19:03 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-12 19:10 ` Scott Wood
2008-02-17 10:22 ` David Woodhouse
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