On 18/10/2017 at 15:59:00 +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > Hi Grant, > > > On Oct 18, 2017, at 15:14 , Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Bird, Timothy <Tim.Bird@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From Geert Uytterhoeven on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 10:24 AM > >>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> I think this also gets to having bindings described in a structured way so > >>> they can be utilized for validation of dts files. We are doing a little of this in > >>> Zephyr since we are using a structured binding spec to generate code from > >>> .dts (since we don’t utilize a runtime dtb). > >>> > >>> So you are basically generating board files from .dts? > >>> (closing the loop ;-) > >> > >> I think we ought to do this on Linux, as a size optimization. > >> -- Tim > >> > >> P.S. I think I'll leave it ambiguous whether this was meant as a joke or not. :-) > > > > As crazy that sounds it is possible using the YAML bindings, i.e. C structure definitions > and fill-up from DT automatically. Whether this is a good idea it’s another question :) > But that doesn't work with any driver parsing custom properties (using of_property_read_* and the likes). I would very much like to see what are the boot time improvements when doing that ;) -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
