From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jerry Van Baren <gvb.linuxppc.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:45:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <feb0a7acbb464e8fb4977e58f2d2d005@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4647098D.9050901@gmail.com>
>> Not bad at all -- it is trivial to decode _if_ you know
>> how it is encoded. You cannot tell by looking at the
>> property data only. What is [44 54 53 00] -- just some
>> bytes, or the integer 0x44545300, or the string "DTS"?
>> You cannot tell.
>
> OK. I was coming from the u-boot "fdt print" command. We do a pretty
> good job of guessing the print format (byte/word/long/string/strings),
> but this would fail the detection circuitry and be printed as a byte
> array [00, 00, 00, 05, 44, 54, ...] (the default format) because it
> takes a-priori knowledge to print it in the original input format.
> Not quite as pretty, but NBD.
Yes, every possible way of displaying property contents
is based on heuristics, some better than others -- taking
the property name (and perhaps some other context) into
account helps a lot. Also, hardly any property is not
an array of 32-bit ints or an array of strings.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-13 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 20:02 [PATCH 0/13] powerpc: Add support for Marvell/mv64x60 and prpmc2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:04 ` [PATCH 1/13] powerpc: Add Makefile rules to wrap dts file in zImage Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 23:29 ` David Gibson
2007-05-11 15:59 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 hostbridge Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell MPSC Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:06 ` [PATCH 4/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for Marvell/mv64x60 I2C Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:06 ` [PATCH 5/13] powerpc: Add interrupt support for Marvell mv64x60 chips Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 6/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 MPSC (serial) platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 7/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 ethernet platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:07 ` [PATCH 8/13] powerpc: Create Marvell mv64x60 I2C platform_data Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 9/13] powerpc: Add Marvell mv64x60 PCI bridge support Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 10/13] powerpc: check cache coherency of kernel vs firmware Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:08 ` [PATCH 11/13] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 21:44 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-10 23:37 ` David Gibson
2007-05-12 11:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 0:00 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-05-13 0:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 12:50 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-05-13 14:45 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-05-13 1:10 ` David Gibson
2007-05-10 20:09 ` [PATCH 12/13] powerpc: Add bootwrapper support for " Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 20:09 ` [PATCH 13/13] powerpc: Add arch/powerpc support for the Motorola PrPMC2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-10 21:57 ` arch/powerpc/sysdev: dumping ground or only for shared drivers? Olof Johansson
2007-05-10 22:06 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-11 1:00 ` Josh Boyer
2007-05-15 9:53 ` Christian Krafft
2007-05-10 22:40 ` David Gibson
2007-05-10 23:00 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-11 0:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-05-11 17:05 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-05-15 21:06 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-15 22:06 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-15 22:19 ` Grant Likely
2007-05-15 22:25 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-15 22:30 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-15 23:56 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-05-16 0:32 ` Mark A. Greer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-12 0:46 [PATCH 0/13] powerpc: Add support for Marvell/mv64x60 and prpmc2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-12 0:57 ` [PATCH 11/13] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform Mark A. Greer
2007-04-25 23:46 [PATCH 0/13] powerpc: Add support for Marvell/mv64x60 and prpmc2800 Mark A. Greer
2007-04-26 0:01 ` [PATCH 11/13] powerpc: Add DTS file for the Motorola PrPMC2800 platform Mark A. Greer
2007-04-26 16:42 ` Scott Wood
2007-04-26 23:34 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-04-26 23:37 ` David Gibson
2007-04-27 20:41 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-04-30 16:45 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-04-30 18:08 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-04-30 22:29 ` Mark A. Greer
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