[PATCH] Added preliminary support for Netstal HCU4 board

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Oct 2 16:41:56 EST 2008


On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 07:12:14AM +0200, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Hi David
> 
> Am Donnerstag 02 Oktober 2008 02.52:08 schrieb David Gibson:
> > That will work, but will lose comments, references, and other
> > formatting, because it essentially compiles then decompiles the tree.
> > You probably don't want to do that.  There's also an explicit
> > conversion program, convert-dtsv0, which will preserve that
> > not-significant-to-output, but useful for the reader information.
> 
> Thanks for providing me the hint. Using it, would surely  have been easier 
> than adding manually the comment again. However I using the search 
> "dtc dts-v1 syntax conversion script" didn't give me any hint and even in the 
> the current  http://www.jdl.com/software/dtc.git I find no word in the 
> Documentation about convert-dtsv0.
> 
> Neither does it get installed when calling make install.

Ah, yes, that's a bug.

> Therefore I would suggest you to add a small remark like this:
> 
> convert-dtsv0 is a small utility program which converts (DTS)
> Device Tree Source from the obsolete version 0 to version 1. Version 1 DTS
> files are marked by line "/dts-v1/;" at the top of the file.

Add this remark where, though?

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