From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Subject: Re: [DTC PATCH] Add support for decimal, octal and binary based cell values.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:09:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070216000912.GD21654@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79929A88-229C-41D7-A8E8-3191743A3EFF@embeddedalley.com>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0800, Dan Malek wrote:
>
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:57 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>
> > Yes, but hex-by-default is already implemented and out there. We
> > can't change it without breaking compatibility horribly.
>
> Compatibility with what? The few dts files that exist
> that are still all changing frequently due to other
> tool modifications? I'd prefer to change them now,
> rather than propagate this new syntax.
Nonetheless there are enough dts files out there - some of them within
vendors where I can't see them - that I absolutely do not want to
change something som fundamental in the format.
I have considered defining a "new-style" cell format, with delimiters
different from < > that uses C style literals. But that idea's fairly
ugly too.
--
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david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_
| _way_ _around_!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-15 17:13 [DTC PATCH] Add support for decimal, octal and binary based cell values Jon Loeliger
2007-02-15 17:30 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-15 17:49 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 18:41 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-15 22:14 ` David Gibson
2007-02-16 0:04 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-16 10:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 17:45 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 18:00 ` Olof Johansson
2007-02-15 18:00 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 18:02 ` Scott Wood
2007-02-15 18:05 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-02-15 18:10 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 21:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 22:12 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 22:59 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-02-15 22:19 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 23:43 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-02-15 22:33 ` Dan Malek
2007-02-15 22:57 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 23:37 ` Dan Malek
2007-02-16 0:09 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-02-16 10:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
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