Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 06/25] dt: add helper for empty dt creation

[Alexander Graf]

On 31.05.2012, at 12:55, David Gibson wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:00:27PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> We want to get rid of the concept of loading an external device tree and 
>> instead
>> generate our own. However, to do this we need to also create a device tree
>> template programatically.
>> 
>> This patch adds a helper to create an empty device tree in memory.
> 
> Hm, this make-an-empty-template thing is common enough that I'll make
> a helper for it in libfdt.

Very cool :). That would still mean that we need the in-QEMU helper for a while 
though, until we can reasonably expect people to have newer versions of libfdt 
on their systems, right? :)


Alex