[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/7] devicetree: Add 8k instead of double dtb size when reserving extra memory

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Good point.  I think I like the latter option.

g.

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