[PATCH] Add support for binary includes.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Feb 23 03:28:21 EST 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:24:56AM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> So, like, the other day Scott Wood mumbled:
> > > 
> > > Can I ask; what is the intended usage of such a thing?  How large
> > > would a typical binary blob be?
> > 
> > I use it for embedding guest device trees in a hypervisor's device tree.
> 
> Why wouldn't we instead, say, extend the source sytax
> to allow a sub-tree or an embedded tree, rather than
> obscuring an opaque form of that guest device tree?

That was what I tried initially, but the implementation was much more
complicated, and path references are problematic.

-Scott



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