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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] using a flat device tree to drive u-boot config
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:59:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488E1709.9090707@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8328f7c0807281105o13defccbt2a0a0321bbb4a46a@mail.gmail.com>

Ben Warren wrote:
> Uh, yeah.  I like the idea of a central repo for hardware info, and
> the device tree concept is good.  My point is that the syntax, while
> concise and exact, can be intimidating.  Just look at the amount of
> traffic on the mailing lists of people that don't understand what all
> the fields mean when specifying IRQs etc.  Anything we can do to make
> it less so for noobies is a good thing for everybody.

Sure, no argument there -- enhancing the dts syntax with symbolic 
constants, computational expressions, and macros should make things like 
interrupt specifiers and maps a lot clearer.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 15:07 [U-Boot-Users] using a flat device tree to drive u-boot config Kumar Gala
2008-07-28 17:28 ` Ben Warren
2008-07-28 17:32   ` Scott Wood
2008-07-28 17:35     ` Ben Warren
2008-07-28 17:43       ` Scott Wood
2008-07-28 18:05         ` Ben Warren
2008-07-28 18:59           ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-07-29  8:26           ` André Schwarz
2008-07-29  8:41             ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-07-29  9:09               ` André Schwarz
2008-08-03  1:10         ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-07-29 16:41     ` Timur Tabi
2008-07-28 17:40 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-28 18:17   ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-28 19:07     ` Scott Wood
2008-07-29  7:54     ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-07-28 18:13 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-07-28 18:19   ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-29 14:30     ` Jon Loeliger
2008-07-29 15:51       ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-29 15:51 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-29 16:46 ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-03  1:58   ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-03  7:51     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-03 12:57       ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-03 15:47         ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-03 17:49           ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-03 19:06             ` Grant Likely
2008-08-03 20:08               ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-04  8:08                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2008-08-04  7:16               ` Jens Gehrlein
2008-08-03 19:45             ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-04 14:33               ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-04 15:31                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-04 15:36                   ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-03 20:47         ` Andrew Dyer
2008-08-04 15:02       ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-04 15:05         ` Timur Tabi

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