generating a phandle w/libfdt?

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:29:21AM -0700, Yoder Stuart wrote:
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> > On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:11 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
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> > > In some work I'm doing I noticed we don't have any APIs to 
> > generate  
> > > a phandle via libfdt.
> > >
> > > was wondering if anyone had ideas on this.
> > >
> > > In first thought it seems we have to scan through the whole blob  
> > > looking for the largest phandle id and than +1 it to generate the  
> > > next "valid" id.  Any other ideas on how to do this more 
> > efficiently?
> > 
> > The other question is there a way today to create a phandle even if  
> > there isn't a reference to it elsewhere in a .dts?
> 
> We had this issue and the 'hack' was to create a phandle property
> in the node itself, so it was self-referenced.  That caused DTC
> to allocate a phandle.   We then could reference the node from
> dynamically generated nodes.

That's nasty.  I should add a way to make dtc generate a phandle for a
node, even if it's not referenced from elsewhere.  Just need to think
of a decent syntax.

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