[PATCH 3/6] fdt: Add fdtdec functions to read byte array

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Dec 3 13:57:48 EST 2011


From: Anton Staff <robotboy at chromium.org>

Sometimes we don't need a full cell for each value. This provides
a simple function to read a byte array, both with and without
copying it.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 include/fdtdec.h |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/fdtdec.c     |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/fdtdec.h b/include/fdtdec.h
index 9871b81..f72d219 100644
--- a/include/fdtdec.h
+++ b/include/fdtdec.h
@@ -231,3 +231,35 @@ int fdtdec_decode_gpio(const void *blob, int node, const char *prop_name,
  * @return 0 if all ok or gpio was FDT_GPIO_NONE; -1 on error
  */
 int fdtdec_setup_gpio(struct fdt_gpio_state *gpio);
+
+/**
+ * Look up a property in a node and return its contents in a byte
+ * array of given length. The property must have at least enough data for
+ * the array (count bytes). It may have more, but this will be ignored.
+ *
+ * @param blob		FDT blob
+ * @param node		node to examine
+ * @param prop_name	name of property to find
+ * @param array		array to fill with data
+ * @param count		number of array elements
+ * @return 0 if ok, or -FDT_ERR_MISSING if the property is not found,
+ *		or -FDT_ERR_BADLAYOUT if not enough data
+ */
+int fdtdec_get_byte_array(const void *blob, int node, const char *prop_name,
+		u8 *array, int count);
+
+/**
+ * Look up a property in a node and return a pointer to its contents as a
+ * byte array of given length. The property must have at least enough data
+ * for the array (count bytes). It may have more, but this will be ignored.
+ * The data is not copied.
+ *
+ * @param blob		FDT blob
+ * @param node		node to examine
+ * @param prop_name	name of property to find
+ * @param count		number of array elements
+ * @return pointer to byte array if found, or NULL if the property is not
+ *		found or there is not enough data
+ */
+const u8 *fdtdec_locate_byte_array(const void *blob, int node,
+			     const char *prop_name, int count);
diff --git a/lib/fdtdec.c b/lib/fdtdec.c
index 509b81f..90db53c 100644
--- a/lib/fdtdec.c
+++ b/lib/fdtdec.c
@@ -315,3 +315,27 @@ int fdtdec_setup_gpio(struct fdt_gpio_state *gpio)
 		return gpio_direction_input(gpio->gpio);
 	}
 }
+
+int fdtdec_get_byte_array(const void *blob, int node, const char *prop_name,
+		u8 *array, int count)
+{
+	const u8 *cell;
+	int err;
+
+	cell = get_prop_len(blob, node, prop_name, count, &err);
+	if (!err)
+		memcpy(array, cell, count);
+	return err;
+}
+
+const u8 *fdtdec_locate_byte_array(const void *blob, int node,
+			     const char *prop_name, int count)
+{
+	const u8 *cell;
+	int err;
+
+	cell = get_prop_len(blob, node, prop_name, count, &err);
+	if (err)
+		return NULL;
+	return cell;
+}
-- 
1.7.3.1



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