device trees.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue May 12 15:30:22 EST 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer
<stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com> wrote:
>> > OK, so the key question seems to be *when* the bitstream is
> associated
>> > with the
>> > device tree.  If at bitstream generation time, you can prepend the
> .dtb
>> > to the bitstream.  As long as the dtb doesn't contain the magic
>> > bitstream start code, you can go back and access it later.
>> >
>> You really mean prepend ? I was presuming that things would work
> better
>> if it was appended ?
>
> Yes, actually prepend is simpler because you don't have to know the size
> of the bitstream.
> Everything before the SYNC code in the bitstream is ignored.

...In this case, might need to preprocess the .dtb the escape out the
possibility of a sync code appearing.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.



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