From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: Update documentation for flat device tree format v17 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:50:40 +1100." <20070314005040.GF25514@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070314005040.GF25514@localhost.localdomain> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:44:30 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger Message-Id: Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Gibson List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled: > This patch updates booting-without-of.txt to describe version 17 of > the flattened device tree format. Version 17 is a small, backwards > compatible change from version 16, adding an extra field giving the > size of the device tree's structure block. At this time, the kernel > has no use for the extra information, however its presence can make > life easier for bootloaders or other software manipulating the tree. > > In addition this patch adds information on the size_dt_strings field > of the device tree header, present since version 3 of the flattened > tree format, but omitted from the documentation. It also makes > changes to consistently refer to versions 16 and 17 as versions 16 and > 17 in decimal, rather than version 0x10 which was occasionally used > for version 16 previously. > > Finally, we also add the new field to the definition of the device > tree header structure in prom.h > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson > --- > > Paulus, please apply. Paul, I have applied the Version 17 Updates patch to my DTC tree. Acked-by: Jon Loeliger Thanks, jdl