libfdt: More tests of NOP handling behaviour
Jerry Van Baren
gvb.linuxppc.dev at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 12:18:19 EST 2008
Jon Loeliger wrote:
> So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
>> In light of the recently discovered bug with NOP handling, this adds
>> some more testcases for NOP handling. Specifically, it adds a helper
>> program which will add a NOP tag after every existing tag in a dtb,
>> and runs the standard battery of tests over trees mangled in this way.
>>
>> For now, this does not add a NOP at the very beginning of the
>> structure block. This causes problems for libfdt at present, because
>> we assume in many places that the root node's BEGIN_NODE tag is at
>> offset 0. I'm still contemplating what to do about this (with one
>> option being simply to declare such dtbs invalid).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> Applied.
>
> BTW, declaring DTBs with BEGIN_NODES not at offset 0
> as invalid seems like a fine choice to me.
>
> jdl
FWIIW, I vote ditto on declaring DTBs with BEGIN_NODES not at offset 0
as invalid. The root being at offset 0 assumption is pretty well
entrenched and I cannot think of any reason to change it that would be
worth the effort.
Best regards,
gvb
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