From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:23:04 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: Merging seperate FDT-blobs? Message-ID: <20080613042304.GD29451@yookeroo.seuss> References: <20080612090433.GA4235@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" In-Reply-To: <20080612090433.GA4235@pengutronix.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:04:33AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Hello, >=20 > a project I am working on consists of different hardware modules, which > can be combined in a lot of variations (not at runtime, though). As each > module shall contain an I2C-eeprom, the idea is now to put a fragment of > a FDT-blob into that EEPROM and let the bootloader combine these > fragments. Such an approach was also sketched by David Gibson recently. > (http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-February/051630.html) >=20 > (As a sidenote, I am not quite sure and could not find anything about > what the mentioned 'fdt_graft' should actually do, in my case something > like a 'fdt_add_blob_subnode' function would be sufficent, I guess.) fdt_add_blob_subnode() sounds like it would do the same thing as I envisaged fdt_graft() doing. > My question: Is there already an effort towards such an approach to > which I could contribute, or do I have to start from scratch? I don't know of anyone who's implemented this specifically, but if you do get there first, please do it on top of libfdt. --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIUfYoaILKxv3ab8YRAmCZAJ0dTOTLZdjOTDPaSnYmaUUiwuKoPwCeN7wE KRi3cQ+O0OlwHIiE8O9g6UU= =m53P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--