From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH dtc] C-based DT schema checker integrated into dtc
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:13:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5272C80A.7070204@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131028101737.GC15114@voom.fritz.box>
On 10/28/2013 04:17 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:44:09PM +0100, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 10/25/2013 12:43 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:51:28 +0100, Stephen Warren
>>> <swarren@wwwdotorg•org> wrote:
>>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia•com>
>>>>
>>>> This is a very quick proof-of-concept re: how a DT schema
>>>> checker might look if written in C, and integrated into dtc.
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking at this.
>>>
>>> Very interesting. Certainly an expedient way to start checking
>>> schemas, and for certain bindings it may be the best approach.
>>> The downside is it forces a recompilation of DTC to bring in
>>> new bindings and it isn't a great meduim for mixing schema with
>>> documentation in the bindings.
>>
>> This approach would certainly require recompiling something. I
>> threw the code into dtc simply because it was the easiest
>> container for the demonstration. It could be a separate DT
>> validation utility if we wanted, although we'd need to split the
>> DT parser from dtc into a library to avoid code duplication. The
>> resultant utility could be part of the repo containing the DTs,
>> so it didn't end up as a separate package to manage.
>>
>> I think the additional documentation could be added as comments
>> in the validation functions, just like IIRC it was to be
>> represented as comments even in the .dts-based schema proposals.
>
> Fwiw, I've been starting to do some hacking on the checks code,
> with a view to making it accomodate the schema stuff better.
> Branch 'checking' on the kernel.org tree. In a state of flux, so
> expect rebases.
Did you forget to push that? I don't see it in any of:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdl/dtc.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git
git://git.jdl.com/software/dtc.git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-31 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 21:51 [RFC PATCH dtc] C-based DT schema checker integrated into dtc Stephen Warren
2013-10-24 23:43 ` Grant Likely
2013-10-25 4:00 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-25 14:44 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-25 15:21 ` Jon Loeliger
2013-10-25 17:38 ` Rob Herring
2013-10-25 23:11 ` David Gibson
2013-11-03 23:15 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-11-03 23:26 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-11-04 9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-04 12:31 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-11-04 16:37 ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-04 18:57 ` Olof Johansson
2013-11-04 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-04 21:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-04 21:43 ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-04 22:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-05 12:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-05 8:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-05 18:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-05 18:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-05 19:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-05 19:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-05 19:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-05 20:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-05 20:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-11-04 21:50 ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-05 8:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-06 12:17 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-04 14:28 ` David Gibson
2013-11-04 16:42 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-28 10:17 ` David Gibson
2013-10-31 21:13 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-11-01 13:24 ` David Gibson
2013-10-25 23:29 ` David Gibson
2013-10-31 21:11 ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-10 11:00 ` David Gibson
2013-11-12 22:06 ` Stephen Warren
2013-11-13 0:33 ` David Gibson
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