PATCH: Add memreserve to DTC

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Jul 11 16:30:25 EST 2005


On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:44:58PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> David and Ben,
> 
> This patch adds support for memreserve to the DTC's notion
> of the "source file".  That is, you can now say this:
>         
>         
>         memreserve =	<
>         		 0000 0001  0000 0002
>         		 0000 0003  0000 0004
>         		>
>         
>         / {
>         	model = "MPC8555CDS";
>         	compatible = "MPC85xxCDS";
>         	#address-cells = <2>;
>         	#size-cells = <2>;
>         	linux,phandle = <100>;
> 
> There is minor fiddling with the -R flag that needs to be
> resolved at this point.
> 
> I've included read and writing for the source and blob formats,
> but don't have a clue what to do with the /proc/devices format.
> 
> I've also tinkered the Makefile to do automatic dependency
> file generation and inclusion.  Yep, I got bit by out of
> date dependencies during my development here. :-)

I applied the dependency portions of the patch to the git tree, with
some tweaks to fix some corner cases.

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