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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for binary includes.
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:24:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JSahk-0003ub-Eh@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:08:20 CST." <20080222160820.GA19571@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>

So, like, the other day Scott Wood mumbled:
> > 
> > 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.

Why wouldn't we instead, say, extend the source sytax
to allow a sub-tree or an embedded tree, rather than
obscuring an opaque form of that guest device tree?

Thanks,
jdl

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 19:19 [PATCH] Add support for binary includes Scott Wood
2008-02-22  5:34 ` David Gibson
2008-02-22 18:12   ` Jon Loeliger
2008-02-25  3:38     ` David Gibson
2008-02-22  6:05 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-22  8:34   ` Bartlomiej Sieka
2008-02-22  9:02   ` David Woodhouse
2008-02-22 15:50     ` Grant Likely
2008-02-22 16:08   ` Scott Wood
2008-02-22 16:24     ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
2008-02-22 16:28       ` Scott Wood
2008-02-26  0:39 ` David Gibson
2008-02-26 17:26   ` Scott Wood
2008-05-27 15:27   ` Kumar Gala
2008-05-27 17:59     ` Jon Loeliger
2008-05-28 23:58       ` David Gibson
2008-05-29  0:02         ` David Gibson
2008-05-30 18:54           ` Scott Wood
2008-06-04  4:13             ` David Gibson
2008-06-04 12:36               ` Bartlomiej Sieka
2008-06-04 14:26               ` Jon Loeliger
2008-06-05  3:11                 ` Josh Boyer
2008-06-11  1:58                 ` dtc: " David Gibson
2008-06-12 16:43                   ` Scott Wood
2008-06-13  0:01                     ` David Gibson
2008-06-13  0:46                       ` Jon Loeliger
2008-06-13  3:41                         ` David Gibson
2008-05-29 14:04         ` [PATCH] " Jon Loeliger
2008-05-30  1:34           ` David Gibson
2008-06-02 20:22             ` Jon Loeliger

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