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From: Phil Elwell <phil-FnsA7b+Nu9XbIbC87yuRow@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/4] dtc: Plugin and fixup support
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:05:28 +0000
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On 29/11/2016 13:00, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> An alias is the standard way to refer to nodes symbolically. They can be overwritten at
> runtime without triggering an error.
Can you give me a concrete example of how this would look?
> Speaking of which, since these overlays are applied at runtime, why not build them with a script
> and have a #define passed to the c preprocessor before compiling them?
Because the parameters are applied at run time, not compile time.

Phil

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