[U-Boot] [PATCH 02/14] fdt: Add functions to access phandles, arrays and bools

[Jerry Van Baren]

On 11/28/2011 01:41 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 08:54 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Add a function to lookup a property which is a phandle in a node, and
>> another to read a fixed-length integer array from an fdt property.
>> Also add a function to read boolean properties.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass<sjg at chromium.org>
>
> Looking at the U-Boot custodians web page, you need to send the core DT
> changes (well, probably anything DT related) to Jerry Van Baren.

Yeah, I saw the patch go by.  I did not recognize the file it patched 
and looked at the history:

commit b5220bc6ed6e6a197adf4926958dca1df4b420b0
Author: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 24 19:15:32 2011 +0000

     fdt: add decode helper library

     This library provides useful functions to drivers which want to use
     the fdt to control their operation. Functions are provided to:
     :
     :

and the copyright is "Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors."

FDT helper functions have been accumulating in common/fdt_support.c 
rather than a separate file.  Simon, what is the history of 
lib/fdtdec.c?  Is it a shared file from the linux kernel?  If it is 
u-boot specific, it would probably be better to add the functions to 
fdt_support.c.

In the same vein, I also have not looked at the functions provided by 
fdtdec.c to see if there is any overlap with existing fdt_support.c 
functions (a quick look says not).

Best regards,
gvb

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