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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for binary includes.
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:19:41PM -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);
> };
> 
> As with /include/, non-absolute paths are looked for in the directory
> of the source file that includes them.

I still dislike the syntax, but haven't thought of a better one yet.
There are some issues with the implementation too, but I've been a bit
too busy with ePAPR stuff to review properly.

Soon, I hope.

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