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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add support for binary includes.
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:10:43PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> A property's data can be populated with a file's contents
> as follows:
> 
> node {
> 	prop = /incbin/("path/to/data");
> };
> 
> A subset of a file can be included by passing start and size parameters.
> For example, to include bytes 8 through 23:
> 
> node {
> 	prop = /incbin/("path/to/data", 8, 16);
> };

Hrm.  Can we leave this one until after 1.1?   Since it adds new
syntax, I think it would be worth cogitating a bit longer.

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