[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 11/20] tegra: fdt: Add clock bindings for Tegra2 Seaboard

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Feb 28 19:46:13 CET 2012


Hi Stephen,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Simon Glass wrote at Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:37 AM:
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
>> > Simon Glass wrote at Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:38 AM:
>> > ...
>> >> I am going to add your binding, less the #clock-cells which U-Boot
>> >> currently can't support because it conflicts with the C preprocessor
>> >> (at some point I may look at a patch to use sed or some other means of
>> >> avoiding this).
>> >
>> > Out of curiosity, why does the C preprocessor come into it? Is U-Boot's
>> > build process running cpp on the .dts files or something? That's non-
>> > standard, although perhaps it could be a useful standard...
>>
>> Yes, but at the moment we only use it for '/include/ ARCH_CPU_DTS'.
>
> Uggh. That's going to make the device tree files look different between
> the kernel and U-Boot:-( With # disallowed in particular, it's going to
> prevent U-Boot from /ever/ using the correct protocols for parsing the
> device tree. This seems like an extremely bad idea.

Until we change it in U-Boot, you mean. We could move to sed or pre-
and post-process the file to remove and re-insert the #.

>
>> Still hoping your symbolic stuff will go in though.
>
> That looks extremely unlikely in its current form. Ideally, I will get
> time to take Jon's or David's patches and push one of them forward to
> provide a more complete solution, but it's a very long way out either way.

That's a shame.

Regards,
Simon

>
> --
> nvpublic
>


More information about the U-Boot mailing list