DTS question
Gary Thomas
gary at mlbassoc.com
Wed Sep 3 10:14:38 EST 2008
David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:56:30PM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
<snip>
>> What gives? Why is explicit hex sometimes an error and sometimes not?
>
> Because we changed the format at one point. Originally (the "dts-v0"
> format) it was implicitly hex everywhere, which turned out to be a
> mistake. So we introduced the new dts-v1 format which uses C-style
> literals. New-style files are marked with a /dts-v1/; token at the
> top of the file.
Gotcha, thanks. Not sure where I picked up the dts-v0 file I based
my platform on, but at least now I understand the magic.
>> Is the format of this file documented anywhere (I've not found it)?
>
> It's in Documentation/dts-format.txt in the dtc tree. I don't think
> that's been included in the version of dtc in the kernel tree, though,
> so you'll need to download the standalone dtc.
>
Where do I find this "dtc" tree?
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