[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 02/10] fdt: Allow stacked overlays phandle references
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Sat Aug 26 13:36:48 UTC 2017
On 11 August 2017 at 02:52, Pantelis Antoniou
<pantelis.antoniou at konsulko.com> wrote:
> This patch enables an overlay to refer to a previous overlay's
> labels by performing a merge of symbol information at application
> time.
>
> In a nutshell it allows an overlay to refer to a symbol that a previous
> overlay has defined. It requires both the base and all the overlays
> to be compiled with the -@ command line switch so that symbol
> information is included.
>
> base.dts
> --------
>
> /dts-v1/;
> / {
> foo: foonode {
> foo-property;
> };
> };
>
> $ dtc -@ -I dts -O dtb -o base.dtb base.dts
>
> bar.dts
> -------
>
> /dts-v1/;
> /plugin/;
> / {
> fragment at 1 {
> target = <&foo>;
> __overlay__ {
> overlay-1-property;
> bar: barnode {
> bar-property;
> };
> };
> };
> };
>
> $ dtc -@ -I dts -O dtb -o bar.dtb bar.dts
>
> baz.dts
> -------
>
> /dts-v1/;
> /plugin/;
> / {
> fragment at 1 {
> target = <&bar>;
> __overlay__ {
> overlay-2-property;
> baz: baznode {
> baz-property;
> };
> };
> };
> };
>
> $ dtc -@ -I dts -O dtb -o baz.dtb baz.dts
>
> Applying the overlays:
>
> $ fdtoverlay -i base.dtb -o target.dtb bar.dtb baz.dtb
>
> Dumping:
>
> $ fdtdump target.dtb
> / {
> foonode {
> overlay-1-property;
> foo-property;
> linux,phandle = <0x00000001>;
> phandle = <0x00000001>;
> barnode {
> overlay-2-property;
> phandle = <0x00000002>;
> linux,phandle = <0x00000002>;
> bar-property;
> baznode {
> phandle = <0x00000003>;
> linux,phandle = <0x00000003>;
> baz-property;
> };
> };
> };
> __symbols__ {
> baz = "/foonode/barnode/baznode";
> bar = "/foonode/barnode";
> foo = "/foonode";
> };
> };
>
> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou at konsulko.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
> lib/libfdt/fdt_overlay.c | 228 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 206 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
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