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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:08:20 -0600
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for binary includes.
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:05:58PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> 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);
> >  };
> 
> 
> Can I ask; what is the intended usage of such a thing?  How large
> would a typical binary blob be?

I use it for embedding guest device trees in a hypervisor's device tree.

-Scott