[PATCH 0/2] Character literal parsing

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:11:08PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24 2011, Anton Staaf wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:02 PM, David Brown <davidb at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Does this mean that the dtc inside the kernel is going to be the
> >     required tool to use to build device trees?  This change doesn't change
> >     the DTB format, so it's as much of a concern, but was wondering if we're
> >     intending to keep things compatible.
> >
> >
> > To be honest, I don't know enough to say either way.  I am using the character
> > literals in a device tree that is used to configure a single firmware image for
> > multiple boards.  That device tree is not currently passed on to the kernel.
> >
> > Your question makes me think that there are two device tree compilers that I
> > should be paying attention to, is that the case?  Or was it a more general
> > comment about diverging from a historic syntax for device tree source files?
> 
> Both, really.  There is a dtc at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/dtc.git but it seems
> older than the one in the kernel.
> 
> Also, the dts form is defined in the ePAPR documents, and this would be
> a (minor) divergence from that.

That's fine as long as the change is backwards compatible.

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