[PATCH 0/2] Character literal parsing

David Brown davidb at codeaurora.org
Sat Jun 25 07:11:08 EST 2011


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.

David

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