From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added preliminary support for Netstal HCU4 board
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:41:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081002064156.GS25598@yookeroo.seuss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810020712.15088.niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 07:12:14AM +0200, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Hi David
>
> Am Donnerstag 02 Oktober 2008 02.52:08 schrieb David Gibson:
> > That will work, but will lose comments, references, and other
> > formatting, because it essentially compiles then decompiles the tree.
> > You probably don't want to do that. There's also an explicit
> > conversion program, convert-dtsv0, which will preserve that
> > not-significant-to-output, but useful for the reader information.
>
> Thanks for providing me the hint. Using it, would surely have been easier
> than adding manually the comment again. However I using the search
> "dtc dts-v1 syntax conversion script" didn't give me any hint and even in the
> the current http://www.jdl.com/software/dtc.git I find no word in the
> Documentation about convert-dtsv0.
>
> Neither does it get installed when calling make install.
Ah, yes, that's a bug.
> Therefore I would suggest you to add a small remark like this:
>
> convert-dtsv0 is a small utility program which converts (DTS)
> Device Tree Source from the obsolete version 0 to version 1. Version 1 DTS
> files are marked by line "/dts-v1/;" at the top of the file.
Add this remark where, though?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-02 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-01 17:47 [PATCH] Added preliminary support for Netstal HCU4 board Niklaus Giger
2008-10-01 18:08 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-01 22:14 ` Niklaus Giger
2008-10-01 23:32 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-02 0:52 ` David Gibson
2008-10-02 5:12 ` Niklaus Giger
2008-10-02 6:41 ` David Gibson [this message]
2008-10-02 19:08 ` Niklaus Giger
2008-10-02 19:37 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-10-02 19:51 ` Niklaus Giger
2008-10-02 20:42 ` Jon Loeliger
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