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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/6] of: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 09:49:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDFD622.1000102@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110527032402.GD7793@yookeroo.fritz.box>

On 05/26/2011 08:24 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 09:47:56AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>> On 05/20/2011 11:33 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:25:38PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>>>> To use it you need to do this in your Kconfig:
>>>>
>>>> 	select LIBFDT
>>>>
>>>> And in the Makefile of the code using libfdt something like:
>>>>
>>>> ccflags-y := -include linux/libfdt_env.h -I$(src)/../../../scripts/dtc/libfdt
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Daney<ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/of/Kconfig          |    3 +++
>>>>   drivers/of/Makefile         |    2 ++
>>>>   drivers/of/libfdt/Makefile  |    3 +++
>>>>   drivers/of/libfdt/fdt.c     |    2 ++
>>>>   drivers/of/libfdt/fdt_ro.c  |    2 ++
>>>>   drivers/of/libfdt/fdt_wip.c |    2 ++
>>>
>>> No fdt_sw.c or fdt_rw.c?
>>>
>>
>> I had no immediate need for them.  They could of course be added,
>> but that would potentially waste space.
>>
>> Let's see if I can make it into an archive library.
>
> That would be preferable.  It's more or less designed to work that way
> so that everything is available without using unnecessary space in the
> binary.
>

Well, I was looking at this some more:

Grant specifically requested that this go in drivers/of/libfdt, however 
I am fairly sure that building archive libraries there will require 
changes to the upper level Makefile infrastructure.

If I go back to lib/libfdt, like my first version, I can easily achieve 
archive library behavior, but then it is separated from from drivers/of.

Personally I am starting to like the lib/libfdt home more than 
drivers/of.  If Grant doesn't object, I think I will move it back there.

What do you think?

David Daney


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-27 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-20 22:25 [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] MIPS: Octeon: Use Device Tree David Daney
2011-05-20 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/6] of: Allow scripts/dtc/libfdt to be used from kernel code David Daney
2011-05-21  6:33   ` David Gibson
2011-05-23 16:47     ` David Daney
2011-05-27  3:24       ` David Gibson
2011-05-27 16:49         ` David Daney [this message]
2011-05-27 20:12           ` Grant Likely
2011-05-20 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/6] of: Make of_find_node_by_path() traverse /aliases for relative paths David Daney
2011-05-27  2:48   ` Grant Likely
2011-05-20 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH v4 3/6] MIPS: Octeon: Add device tree source files David Daney
2011-05-27  1:56   ` Grant Likely
2011-05-27 17:00     ` David Daney
2011-05-27 20:13       ` Grant Likely
2011-05-20 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH v4 4/6] MIPS: Prune some target specific code out of prom.c David Daney
2011-05-27  1:58   ` Grant Likely
2011-05-27 17:05     ` David Daney
2011-05-20 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH v4 5/6] MIPS: Octeon: Add irq_create_of_mapping() and GPIO interrupts David Daney
2011-05-20 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH v4 6/6] MIPS: Octeon: Initialize and fixup device tree David Daney

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