[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] fdt: Add simple alias support to fdt print command

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:

>
> Thinking out loud... we could define the syntax that a leading "*"  
> indicates the first part of the path is a dereference of /aliases.
>
> Assuming
>  /aliases/soc = /soc8360 at e000000
>  /aliases/ethernet0 = /soc8360 at e0000000/.../enet0
> then
>  print *soc/enet0
> and
>  print *ethernet0
> would both work and print the right thing.  You *would* have to know  
> that the first element of the path is an /aliases dereference.  Your  
> original patch did not require that piece of knowledge (but silently  
> and automagically, which makes me nervous).

did we come to resolution on this?  I'd like to see this in 1.3.5.

- k