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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc•com>
To: Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: DTS question
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:14:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BDD6EE.40600@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902234207.GB9681@yookeroo.seuss>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02 21:56 DTS question Gary Thomas
2008-09-02 23:42 ` David Gibson
2008-09-03  0:14   ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2008-09-03  0:25     ` David Gibson
2008-09-02 23:43 ` Scott Wood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-20 21:33 Sean MacLennan
2008-03-20 21:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-20 21:48 ` Scott Wood
2008-03-20 22:19 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-03-20 22:26   ` Scott Wood
2008-03-21  4:12     ` Sean MacLennan
2008-03-21  4:34       ` Grant Likely
2008-03-21  5:09         ` Sean MacLennan
2008-03-21  7:05           ` David Gibson
2008-03-21 11:35             ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-25 22:12               ` David Gibson
2008-03-26 15:32                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-26 23:40                   ` David Gibson
2008-03-27  3:42                     ` Sean MacLennan
2008-03-21 11:31         ` Segher Boessenkool

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