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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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-06 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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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