From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:46:32 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Merging device trees at runtime for module-based systems In-Reply-To: <50893633.6070408@gmail.com> References: <5087B919.2010006@gmail.com> <20121025124441.6D75A2005C0@gemini.denx.de> <50893633.6070408@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20121025204632.CFD132005C3@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Daniel, In message <50893633.6070408@gmail.com> you wrote: > > Overwrites must be addressed in the first place. The most common example > is that a more generic part (the module tree) registers all details > about a peripheral up-front but then sets its status to 'disabled'. That > way, the more specific part (the base board tree) can overwrite this > property to 'okay' at wish to enable it and not care for the pre-defined > details. This is also how we do things in our device-trees. Agreed. > > I definitely can see the benefit of such a feature and would be happy > > if you could go forward and implement it. > > Ok then. I guess this should be something that can eventually be merged > back into libfdt? I can't speak for the FDT custodian, but I think this makes a lot of sense. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.