[PATCH] DTC: Improve options handling

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Sun Mar 18 12:51:26 EST 2007


On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:35:47PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:03:37PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> >> Hi David, Jon,
> >>
> >> Here is another fairly trivial patch for dtc.  It adds -h to get the 
> >> usage message.  It adds -q (-qq/-qqq) to suppress warnings/errors.
> >> It removes the -R option which is advertised but does nothing
> >> useful.
> > 
> > NAK.  -R does do something that I believe is useful.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> -R sets a local variable reservenum to the specified value.  Nobody uses 
> reservenum, hence my conclusion that it does nothing useful.

Oops, looks like -R got broken when /memreserve/ was implemented.
It's supposed to add extra, empty, entries into the reserve map for
the benefit of dumb bootloaders that want to add reserve entries
without having to rearrange the blob.

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