Re: [PATCH] libfdt: add address translation support

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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 18:02:38 -0500
> Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 11:57 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> > From: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > Add FDT based address translation. Currently, only simple bus
>> > translations are supported, but the framework allows adding other
>> > buses like PCI. Adding this to libfdt allows the address
>> > translation code to be shared amongst u-boot, Linux kernel and other
>> > projects.
>> >
>> > This code is based on GPL only licensed code. It must first be
>> > re-licensed for dual GPL/BSD to add to libfdt which requires approval
>> > from the copyright holders.
>> >
>> > This code is copied from u-boot common/fdt_support.c. The portion used
>> > here was originally added to u-boot by Kumar Gala in 2010 and Freescale
>> > is the copyright holder. Later changes have also only been done by
>> > Freescale authors. The u-boot code appears to have been copied from the
>> > Linux kernel's address translation code in drivers/of/address.c which
>> > has no copyright. This code was moved by Grant Likely in 2010 and
>> > originated from arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c which was written by
>> > Ben Herrenschmidt. Who is the copyright holder on a file in the kernel
>> > with no copyright? Does this default to the author or Linus or nobody?
>>
>> ACK for the Freescale contribution (on copyright issues, not technical -- see below).
>
> FWIW, ack from me too.

Thanks.

>> +/* Default translator (generic bus) */
>> +static void fdt_bus_default_count_cells(void *blob, int parentoffset,
>> +                                     int *addrc, int *sizec)
>
> space before tab in indent (git am).
>
> Also, thanks for not introducing new sparse warnings :)

I believe that's mainly because someone already did on the u-boot source. :)

Rob
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