Merging seperate FDT-blobs?

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:04:33AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a project I am working on consists of different hardware modules, which
> can be combined in a lot of variations (not at runtime, though). As each
> module shall contain an I2C-eeprom, the idea is now to put a fragment of
> a FDT-blob into that EEPROM and let the bootloader combine these
> fragments. Such an approach was also sketched by David Gibson recently.
> (http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-February/051630.html)
> 
> (As a sidenote, I am not quite sure and could not find anything about
> what the mentioned 'fdt_graft' should actually do, in my case something
> like a 'fdt_add_blob_subnode' function would be sufficent, I guess.)

fdt_add_blob_subnode() sounds like it would do the same thing as I
envisaged fdt_graft() doing.

> My question: Is there already an effort towards such an approach to
> which I could contribute, or do I have to start from scratch?

I don't know of anyone who's implemented this specifically, but if you
do get there first, please do it on top of libfdt.

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