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

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 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? :)

True.  The helper is in upstream libfdt git now, btw.

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