On 12/13/2013 09:49 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Currently dtc loses information about data types when parsing DTS,
> because it flattens all the parsed property data into a flat stream of
> bytes. The only saved metadata is for references to other nodes inside
> cell arrays. This makes it impossible to do any checks on data types on
> livetree representation.
>
> This patch makes dtc store type information inside data struct by using
> marker infrastructure. A new type of marker is introduced that holds
> type enum as its ref member. Such markers are then inserted wherever
> data of given type starts, so information about type of each property
> data section is preserved.
> diff --git a/dtc-parser.y b/dtc-parser.y
> | propdataprefix DT_REF
> {
> - $$ = data_add_marker($1, REF_PATH, $2);
> + struct data d;
> + d = data_add_marker($1, TYPE, (char *)TYPE_STRING);
> + $$ = data_add_marker(d, REF_PATH, $2);
> }
I guess here, the lexer does give us a string that's the target of the
reference, so this is correct. However, I wonder if semantically we
shouldn't call this a TYPE_REFERENCE, so we can distinguish between
references and regular strings?
> diff --git a/livetree.c b/livetree.c
> @@ -530,16 +530,24 @@ cell_t get_node_phandle(struct node *root, struct node *node)
> node->phandle = phandle;
>
> if (!get_property(node, "linux,phandle")
> - && (phandle_format & PHANDLE_LEGACY))
> + && (phandle_format & PHANDLE_LEGACY)) {
> + struct data d;
> +
> + d = data_add_marker(empty_data, TYPE, (char *)TYPE_ARRAY_INT32);
Similarly here, can we encode as e.g. TYPE_PHANDLE or something like
that, so we keep the semantic information?
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