On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:46:32PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Daniel, > > In message <50893633.6070...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > > > Overwrites must be addressed in the first place. The most common example > > is that a more generic part (the module tree) registers all details > > about a peripheral up-front but then sets its status to 'disabled'. That > > way, the more specific part (the base board tree) can overwrite this > > property to 'okay' at wish to enable it and not care for the pre-defined > > details. This is also how we do things in our device-trees. > > Agreed. > > > > I definitely can see the benefit of such a feature and would be happy > > > if you could go forward and implement it. > > > > Ok then. I guess this should be something that can eventually be merged > > back into libfdt? > > I can't speak for the FDT custodian, but I think this makes a lot of > sense.
As a rule I'm happy to see more functionality for libfdt. I've only seen bits and pieces of this thread, though, so I'd need to see a summary of what exactly is being proposed. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot