[PATCH] Added preliminary support for Netstal HCU4 board

Niklaus Giger niklaus.giger at member.fsf.org
Fri Oct 3 05:08:44 EST 2008


Am Donnerstag 02 Oktober 2008 08.41:56 schrieb David Gibson:
> 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?
Add a small chapter IV Utilities in your Documentation/manual.txt.

And if the http://www.jdl.com/git_repos/ would work again, I think the spiders 
would pick it up from there.

Best regards

Niklaus



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