[DTC PATCH] Add support for decimal, octal and binary based cell values.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Feb 16 05:41:50 EST 2007


On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+b08248=freescale.com at ozlabs.org
>> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+b08248=freescale.com at ozlabs.org]
>> On Behalf Of Kumar Gala
> [snip]
>>> New syntax d#, b#, o# and h# allow for an explicit prefix
>>> on cell values to specify their base.  Eg: <d# 123>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl at freescale.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>
>> What are people's thoughts on supporting '0x' and '0X' for hex?
>
> Are you saying allow d#1234, h#5678, and 0x5678?  Or use 0x instead
> of h#?

I'm saying in addition to supporting the d#, h# notation.

The reason I'm suggesting support '0x' is its pretty natural from C  
and I know there have been a number of times when I forget that all  
int constants in .dts are hex.

- k




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