[PATCH 0/6] bootwrapper: arch/powerpc/boot code reorg patches

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Sat Aug 19 07:46:50 EST 2006


On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:37:06PM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 12:14 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > Just a note that I will respin my patches to address all of your
> > comments.  However, it looks like the fdt code is going to change
> > to use code from a common source base.  I'm going to wait until
> > that has settled and then I'll modify the code and repost the patches.
> 
> By the way, I don't expect the (ft_build.h) interface to change much
> from what I emailed last week. So I think it's safe to build on top of
> those.
> 
> The only addition I'd like to make is creating an ft_set_prop() that
> will handle resizing the tree for you. With that change, you wouldn't
> ft_get_prop() and then write directly to that pointer (as is done
> currently).
> 
> I'm still waiting to hear the outcome of Matt's patches. I don't need
> them, but if u-boot does then I'll have to merge them into the
> standalone code.

Another note.  Hollis and I have been talking some more and may change
some code.  IOW, I'm still going to wait a bit to see what comes out of
it before respining the patches.

Mark



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