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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, jeremy.kerr@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/7] devicetree: Add 8k instead of double dtb size when reserving extra memory
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:00:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004091300.57740.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100407041002.20274.51604.stgit@angua>

> If a small 'seed' dtb file is loaded into qemu and then heavily modified
> (say for runtime population of all the device nodes), then 2x the dtb
> size turns out not to be very much.
> 
> This patch changes the device tree loading code to add a fixed 8k of
> additional space to the dtb buffer.

In that case you almost certainly want double+8k. Or have the calleee tell you 
how much they're expecting to grow the tree.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-09 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07  4:09 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] QEMU patches to generate FDT from qdevs Grant Likely
2010-04-07  4:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/7] devicetree: Add 8k instead of double dtb size when reserving extra memory Grant Likely
2010-04-09 12:00   ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-04-09 14:55     ` Grant Likely
2010-04-07  4:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/7] devicetree: auto-populate the device tree with qdev data Grant Likely
2010-04-07  4:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/7] devicetree: add helper for determining IRQ properties in the device tree Grant Likely
2010-04-07  4:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/7] devicetree: Add sysbus fdt populate hooks Grant Likely
2010-04-07  4:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/7] devicetree: Add helper to register devices with an fdt_populate hook Grant Likely
2010-04-07  4:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 6/7] devicetree: Add fdt_populate hook to pl011 device Grant Likely
2010-04-07  4:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 7/7] devicetree: Add fdt_populate hook to smc91x device Grant Likely
2010-04-07  7:01 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] QEMU patches to generate FDT from qdevs Jeremy Kerr
2010-04-07 20:58   ` Grant Likely
2010-04-07 19:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2010-04-07 20:57   ` Grant Likely
2010-04-09 12:07 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-09 14:47   ` Grant Likely
2010-04-09 15:57     ` Paul Brook
2010-04-09 16:35       ` Grant Likely

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