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From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@smiths-aerospace•com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>,  linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] libfdt: problems with real life blobs
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:02:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DAF156.40604@smiths-aerospace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070219234631.GD17818@localhost.localdomain>

David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:00:57PM -0500, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I've been trying to use your libfdt in u-boot and my first step, get a 
>> value from the blob, failed terminally.  After poking about a bit, it 
>> appears that your libfdt and Jon Loeliger's dtc (-V 16) disagree with 
>> respect to the format of the blob - libfdt won't traverse the path.
> 
> That's certainly bad.
> 
>> I've created two patches:
> 
> Ug.  Damn.  Trouble is, for IBM paranoid procedural reasons, I'm not
> really in a position to accept patches for libfdt from outside at
> present.  I'm already working on fixing that, but there being a
> ponderous bureaucracy involved, it's going to take a little while.

That's OK, just call it "the illustration of advice formerly known as a 
patch."  I just hope I didn't poison the well. ;-)

Seriously, I don't claim copyright on the changes, that would be 
inappropriate their trivial nature.  I do understand IBM's paranoia, 
however.  }:-(

gvb

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-20 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19 18:00 [PATCH 0/2] libfdt: problems with real life blobs Jerry Van Baren
2007-02-19 23:46 ` David Gibson
2007-02-20 13:02   ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]

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