From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: Virtex device tree generator proof of concept
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:47:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061206234757.GD17446@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528646bc0612061514mbcb2627wbe83cd47a06b31b9@mail.gmail.com>
Hmm.. I seem to have missed the beginning of this thread, somehow.
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:14:33PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 12/6/06, Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Grant,
> >
> > This looks really cool... I've hacked around in it a bit to generate
> > device trees that go more completely through dtc. (I'd be happy
> > to push these modifications back to you, if you're interested...)
>
> Yes please, send me your patches.
>
> >
> > I'm curious if you've heard of anyone using device trees other than
> > at boot time: for instance, using an incomplete device tree blob to
> > represent components discovered at runtime? It looks like it should
> > be possible to rip out alot of the code from kernel/powerpc/prom.c in
> > recent kernels to parse incomplete device trees, too... Any thoughts?
That reminds me: I was definitely thinking about implementing a
"graft" function in libfdt for merging a tree from one blob into
another.
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2006-12-06 23:14 ` Virtex device tree generator proof of concept Grant Likely
2006-12-06 23:47 ` David Gibson [this message]
2006-12-07 0:19 Stephen Neuendorffer
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2006-11-29 19:16 Grant Likely
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