From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
Devicetree Discuss <devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Tom Warren <TWarren@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/17] fdt: Tidy up a few fdtdec problems
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 16:18:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDD433D.4060603@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ36vurCx1yi2PoERBDVMwgkN_HVibHm_5fJ8QAuPKPMeg@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/05/2011 04:11 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> wrote:
>> My point is that there are probably .dts files using "ok" instead of
>> "okay" or the kernel wouldn't support "ok". People will probably want to
>> use those with U-Boot without changing anything else. So, U-Boot should
>> interpret the FDT in the same way as the kernel.
The kernel has to deal with real Open Firmware systems, some of which
pass buggy trees. U-Boot should not blindly imitate all of Linux's
workarounds.
> OK, how about:
> return 0 == strncmp(cell, "ok", 2);
>
> (I do feel that if you do this sort of thing you end up with people
> using 'ok' even in new fdts, since they look at code like this and
> think it is fine)
Indeed.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-05 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1322878300-5551-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org>
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] fdt: Tidy up a few fdtdec problems Simon Glass
2011-12-05 21:27 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-05 21:40 ` Simon Glass
[not found] ` <CAPnjgZ0h39vB2H4MuCwVqb2Tgcr4==yN8Pj6a3s9dciyXPBu1A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 22:07 ` Stephen Warren
[not found] ` <4EDD4091.1030708-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 22:11 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-05 22:18 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2011-12-05 22:25 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-05 22:53 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] arm: fdt: Add skeleton device tree file from kernel Simon Glass
[not found] ` <1322878300-5551-1-git-send-email-sjg-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] fdt: Add functions to access phandles, arrays and bools Simon Glass
[not found] ` <1322878300-5551-3-git-send-email-sjg-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 21:59 ` Stephen Warren
[not found] ` <4EDD3EDE.4000609-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 22:07 ` Simon Glass
[not found] ` <CAPnjgZ30Bmxp4eGCgYss9GHt=SN5X5-sSHrPJpZFjVjprpa_Ag-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 22:36 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-05 23:56 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] fdt: Add basic support for decoding GPIO definitions Simon Glass
[not found] ` <1322878300-5551-5-git-send-email-sjg-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 21:46 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-05 21:56 ` Simon Glass
[not found] ` <CAPnjgZ3ARCTXVN2MKhfrdCCmmb21zbYdSq8AuQFPdoA=xFr7Mg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 22:22 ` Stephen Warren
[not found] ` <4EDD440C.80002-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 22:52 ` Simon Glass
[not found] ` <CAPnjgZ03+tfMhkqo4=uarcAf1E8hTfvSF_Y0=V70tuqP866QQQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 23:03 ` Stephen Warren
[not found] ` <4EDD4DA7.6070902-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 23:29 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-06 3:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-12-07 1:21 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] arm: fdt: Ensure that an embedded fdt is word-aligned Simon Glass
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] tegra: fdt: Add Tegra2x device tree file from kernel Simon Glass
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] tegra: fdt: Add device tree file for Tegra2 Seaboard " Simon Glass
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] tegra: usb: fdt: Add additional device tree definitions for USB ports Simon Glass
[not found] ` <1322878300-5551-10-git-send-email-sjg-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 23:25 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-06 0:55 ` Simon Glass
[not found] ` <CAPnjgZ1J_cOS_E+ZiDoZUh79V7LUFzVkx-0nhbPTDwuGCGvDnQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-06 20:28 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-06 21:09 ` Simon Glass
[not found] ` <CAPnjgZ035Cen11ObFXjKUCqypvVKzkewhfY2F=yGH8=RWxVuSA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-07 23:36 ` Stephen Warren
[not found] ` <4EDFF898.1070708-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-08 21:10 ` Simon Glass
[not found] ` <CAPnjgZ1adfU652Z2ob30GTWZiCnah4WsJNfVrroWvtM5LXW93Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-12 18:13 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-12 18:53 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] tegra: usb: fdt: Add USB definitions for Tegra2 Seaboard Simon Glass
[not found] ` <1322878300-5551-11-git-send-email-sjg-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-05 23:26 ` Stephen Warren
2011-12-03 2:11 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] tegra: fdt: Enable FDT support for Seaboard Simon Glass
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