Preprocessor arithmetic in dtsi files (base + offset)

[robin.murphy@arm.com (Robin Murphy)]

On 26/11/15 16:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
[...]
> I guess this would work, too?
>
> scu_container at 20000000 {
>          compatible = "simple-bus";
>
>          ranges = <0x0 0x20000000 0x10000>;
>          #address-cells = <1>;
>          #size-cells = <1>;
>
>          scu: scu at 0 {
>                  compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-scu";
>                  reg = <0x0000 0x100>;
>
>          gic: interrupt-controller at 1000 {
>                  compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-gic";
>                  reg = <0x1000 0x1000>, <0x0100 0x0100>;
>
>          twd-timer at 0600 {
>                  compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-twd-timer";
>                  reg = <0x0600 0x10>;
> };
>
> No more explicit arithmetic needed, just substitue "20000000".

Which, funnily enough, ends up looking an awful lot like the definition 
in the hardware documentation[1] too ;)

Robin.

[1]:http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0407i/CACCJFCJ.html

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