[PATCH v4 0/3] Variable sized array element support

[Anton Staaf]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jon Loeliger <jdl at jdl.com> wrote:
>> This patch set adds, tests, and documents support for variable sized elements in
>> arrays (known as cell lists when they could only support 32-bit entries).  The
>> new syntax is:
>>
>>     property = /bits/ [8|16|32|64] <0x00 .... 0x12>;
>>
>> So arrays of 8, 16, 32, or 64-bit elements can now be created.  No padding is
>> done on the resulting array.  So if three 8-bit elements are specified the
>> resulting property will contain three bytes.
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - sized_data renamed to celllist
>> - celllist definition moved to dtc-parser.y
>> - celllist non-terminal renamed to celllistprefix
>> - references always appended as -1 masked to the size of the cell
>> - smaller test values derived from TEST_VALUE_1
>> - data_append_literal renamed to data_append_integer
>> - be_ removed from values in data_append_integer
>> - len renamed to bits in data_append_integer
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Renamed size to bits in docs, parser, commit messages, and celllist struct
>> - Remove die on overflow from data_append_integer
>> - Rewrite data_append_cell|addr in terms of data_append_integer
>> - Minor cosmetic change to property names in test case (added 'b' to last two)
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - Only add phandle reference marker when element size is 32-bits
>> - Rename non-terminal celllistprefix to arrayprefix
>> - Rename semantic variable celllist to array
>> - Update documentation to use array and element instead of cell list and cell
>>
>> Anton Staaf (3):
>>   libfdt: Add fdt16_to_cpu utility function
>>   dtc: Add data_append_integer function
>>   dtc: Add support for variable sized elements
>>
>>  Documentation/dts-format.txt |   34 +++++++++++-----
>>  data.c                       |   39 ++++++++++++++++---
>>  dtc-lexer.l                  |    6 +++
>>  dtc-parser.y                 |   70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>  dtc.h                        |    1 +
>>  libfdt/libfdt_env.h          |    6 +++
>>  tests/.gitignore             |    1 +
>>  tests/Makefile.tests         |    1 +
>>  tests/run_tests.sh           |    3 +
>>  tests/sized_cells.c          |   84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  tests/sized_cells.dts        |   11 +++++
>>  11 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 tests/sized_cells.c
>>  create mode 100644 tests/sized_cells.dts
>
> Series applied.

Excellent, thanks.

-Anton

> Thanks,
> jdl
>