dtc: .quad asm directive generation

[Mark A. Greer]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:06:57PM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> So, like, the other day "Mark A. Greer" mumbled:
> > > 
> > > And finally, as of, well right about now, until October or so, I'm
> > > expecting to be unavailable, off travelling and things.  In the
> > > interim Jon Loeliger of Freescale has agreed to be dtc maintainer.
> > 
> > Jon, any comments?
> 
> For 9 months nothing.  Dave abdicates his DTC maintainer role to me.
> The very next day, all hell breaks loose!  Of _course_ I have comments!
> 
> Uh, I've been bitten by the difference between the binary and asm
> form of these outputs before as well.  Specifically where the reserve
> map included its own layout region as a reserve block.  IIRC, though,
> it was a physical versus virtual address problem that, though understood,
> we didn't really resolve.
> 
> I was eventually forced to move along, as that was not the battle I
> was looking for.  Our U-Boot eventually went to a straight binary
> form that was directly munged into a C array definition and side-stepped
> that issue.
> 
> As for the 64-bit-ness problem, I'm willing to accept donated 64-bit
> hardware that would allow me to test the problems you are seeing. :-)
> 
> I mean, any patches that drift my way will be considered. :-)

Heh!

Okay, right now the kernel/prom.c code is choking on the dt from the asm
file so I'll figure that out and then start poking into the dtc code and
see what I can figure out.

Mark