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From: zonque@gmail.com (Daniel Mack)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH V2 4/9] s/.name/.compatible/
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:16:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FD10A9.9030300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130803140741.GH5882@titan.lakedaemon.net>

On 03.08.2013 16:07, Jason Cooper wrote:
> I changed the api so that the user could link in a random number of dtbs
> _without_ hardcoding the addresses.  Searching by the compatible string
> was the easiest way to accomplish this.  Unfortunately, I didn't know
> his compatible strings when I made the change.
> 
> For the curious, the code that does this is here:
> 
>   https://github.com/zonque/pxa-impedance-matcher/blob/master/dtbs.c
> 
> We plan to add dtb parsing in the future so that we can change the dtb
> based on the atags passed by the legacy bootloader.

... and then we can also specifically look into the compatible node of
the dtb, and not just do a string search over the entire binary.

But for now, it's good enough.


Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-03 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-04 16:56 Appended DTB files for multi-machine kernels Daniel Mack
2013-07-04 17:11 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-04 21:34   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-07-04 23:02     ` Daniel Mack
2013-07-05  8:32     ` Magnus Damm
2013-07-04 17:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-07-04 17:57   ` Daniel Mack
2013-07-04 18:27     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-07-26 16:13   ` Daniel Mack
2013-07-26 16:44     ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-07-29 21:23     ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] impedance-matcher generic improvements Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 21:24       ` [PATCH 1/2] add cscope Makefile target Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 21:24       ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] WIP: Get kernel and dtb addresses from command line Jason Cooper
2013-07-30  7:48       ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] impedance-matcher generic improvements Daniel Mack
2013-07-30 13:17         ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-30 13:37           ` Daniel Mack
2013-07-30 14:42             ` Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51     ` [RFC PATCH V2 0/9] " Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 1/9] add cscope Makefile target Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 2/9] separate common functions from board specific Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 3/9] rename board.c to board-raumfeld.c Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 4/9] s/.name/.compatible/ Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 21:52         ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-03 14:07           ` Jason Cooper
2013-08-03 14:16             ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 5/9] directly include needed headers Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 6/9] serial: split out 8250 code, configurable reg addr Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 7/9] add generic board code Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 8/9] make appending images/dtbs optional Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 15:51       ` [RFC PATCH V2 9/9] appended dtbs works! Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 19:42         ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-08-02 19:54           ` Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 19:57           ` Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 17:53       ` [RFC PATCH V2 0/9] impedance-matcher generic improvements Daniel Mack
2013-08-02 18:43         ` Jason Cooper
2013-08-02 18:46           ` Daniel Mack
2013-07-04 18:36 ` Appended DTB files for multi-machine kernels Dirk Behme
2013-07-05 18:36 ` Stephen Warren

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