From: tony@atomide•com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] ARM: use C pre-processor with dtc
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:46:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120925234616.GE4840@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50620B5B.5020904@wwwdotorg.org>
* Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg•org> [120925 12:53]:
> On 09/25/2012 01:35 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> >
> > Do you have an example of where you'd actually benefit from this? I'd
> > think most things could either be done reasonably well with what's built
> > into DTC (see what we've done in arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl), or would
> > need math expression support in DTC (or has that been added?).
>
> Yes, support for basic integer math in cell values has indeed been
> recently added to upstream dtc. I don't believe this has been ported
> into the in-kernel dtc yet though.
>
> The primary motivation here is probably naming constants and associated
> readability. For example, instead of:
>
> nvidia,phy-reset-gpio = <&gpio 169 0>; /* gpio PV1 */
>
> You could write:
>
> nvidia,phy-reset-gpio = <&gpio TEGRA_GPIO_PV1 0>;
>
> No more opaque numbers!
This would be nice indeed.
Regards,
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-25 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-25 19:06 [RFC PATCH 0/3] ARM: use C pre-processor with dtc Stephen Warren
2012-09-25 19:06 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] kbuild: introduce cmd_dtc_cpp Stephen Warren
2012-09-27 5:44 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-27 15:39 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-27 17:40 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-25 19:06 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] ARM: use cmd_dtc_cpp for compilation of *.dts-cpp to *.dtb Stephen Warren
2012-09-27 5:47 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-27 15:40 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-25 19:06 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] ARM: tegra: compile all DT files with cpp Stephen Warren
2012-09-25 19:35 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] ARM: use C pre-processor with dtc Scott Wood
2012-09-25 19:51 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-25 19:59 ` Scott Wood
2012-09-25 20:05 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-25 20:05 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-25 19:51 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-25 23:46 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2012-09-27 5:40 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-27 15:38 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-27 17:27 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
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