Could the DTS experts look at this?

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:41:12PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure I'm entirely happy about storing the fragments under a
> > special node - but certainly u-boot could do that if it wants.  What
> > would certainly be ok is to store various fragments as separate blobs
> > and fold them together as necessary.  Which reminds me, I meant to
> > implement a "graft" function in libfdt.
> 
> Most likely, U-Boot would strip out the special node after
> processing it.  The idea is for the boot loader to customize the
> device tree based before sending it to the kernel.

Of course.  U-boot can use whatever representation it likes
internally, as long as it's all fixed up by the time it reaches the
kernel.  I just think using sepa`rate "device tree fragment" blobs
might be a better way of doing it.

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