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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Scott Wood" <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, jdl@jdl.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for binary includes.
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:05:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40802212205p38c3793bg8793740955b1e91@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080220191941.GA2062@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>

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?

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22  6:05 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 [this message]
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
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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