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Date:      Sat, 23 Jul 2016 11:37:56 +0100
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Call for Testing: Switching back to our BSD licensed dtc(1)
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On 23 Jul 2016, at 05:16, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:03 AM, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> =
wrote:
>> On 22 Jul 2016, at 03:40, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:51 AM, David Chisnall =
<theraven@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> On 20 Jul 2016, at 16:46, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I've been trying to get the final spec for it. Right now it's a
>>>>> disorganized series
>>>>> of patches, some of which have been merge some that haven't. I'll =
send you a
>>>>> copy when I can find something better than "here's the code."
>>>>=20
>>>> Thanks.  =46rom the information I can find, it looks as if most of =
the machinery required to implement it is already in dtc, so it should =
(hopefully) just be a matter of adding a new keyword to detect plugins, =
a scan to find the cross-references (or possibly reusing the existing =
one) and then a little bit of extra logic.
>>>=20
>>> =
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Docum=
entation/devicetree/overlay-notes.txt
>>> has the specs.
>>=20
>> Hmm, that=E2=80=99s even less complete than the docs that I=E2=80=99d =
found.
>=20
> Can you share that then?

I only found tutorial-style things:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md

=
https://learn.adafruit.com/introduction-to-the-beaglebone-black-device-tre=
e/device-tree-overlays

I was hoping for something a bit more like a spec.


>> =46rom that, it seems as if the only thing that dtc needs to do is =
support the /plugin/ syntax and emit a section describing unresolved =
references?
>=20
> I believe so, yes.

That sounds like it should be easy.

>=20
>> Or is dtc also expected to be able to do the merging?
>=20
> I think that's TBD. We'll need, at the very least, an update libfdt
> from upstream that knows how to do the merging, as well as changes to
> /boot/loader to be able to pick and choose which plugins to add to the
> base. If we can do all that with the BSDL DTC and it passes all the
> other GPL test cases, then we may have a winner and we can get started
> integrating plugin support to /boot/loader. I know my RPi would be
> happier if it had a 'standard' DTB with a plugin for whatever 1-wire
> stuff I'm playing with today.

Patrick Wildt was running the GPL=E2=80=99d dtc test suite and I fixed =
all of the things that he reported broken.  We=E2=80=99re now using a =
less-efficient algorithm for calculating the cross-references so that we =
resolve things in the same order, which makes doing a diff on the dts =
produced by the two tools easier.

David


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