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From: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
To: "Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>, "Simon Glass" <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
Subject: Re: difference between fdtdec and fdt_support ?
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:37:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0118ad71-d68c-aab3-35e2-b83bba579b4d@prevas.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220106132100.56f55e02@thinkpad>

On 06/01/2022 13.21, Marek Behún wrote:

> Also fdtdec does a strange thing with compatible strings: it declares
> an enum for compatible strings and then a map which maps this enum
> values to compatible strings... Why not just use the compatible strings?
> 
> What is the purpose of having two files implementing fdt stuff?

AFAIK, the primary purpose is to ensure powerpc binaries are bloated
with useless string literals.</sarcasm>

https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/50288d08-3ab8-ef3c-5118-f74e30297104@prevas.dk/

Rasmus


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-06 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-06 12:21 difference between fdtdec and fdt_support ? Marek Behún
2022-01-06 14:37 ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2022-01-06 15:48 ` Simon Glass
2022-01-06 16:10   ` Marek Behún
2022-01-06 16:15     ` Simon Glass
2022-01-06 16:55       ` Marek Behún
2022-01-27 15:05         ` Simon Glass

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