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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties |
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Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:34:08 +0100 |
On 6 July 2012 02:56, Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden> wrote:
> Can we generalise and get functionality for reading cells with offsets
> as well? Your function assumes (and asserts) that the property is a
> single cell, but can we add a index parameter for reading a non-0th
> property out of a multi-cell prop? Needed for reading things like
> ranges, regs and interrupt properties.
I was playing about with this and I'm really not sure that we should
be providing a "read a single u32 from a u32 array property" at the
device_tree.c layer. For example, for handling the ranges property
what you really want to do is treat it as a list of tuples (including
doing something sensible if it doesn't have the right length to be
a complete list), so the code that knows the structure of the ranges
property is better off calling qemu_devtree_getprop to get a uint32_t*
for the whole array. Then it has the whole thing as a straightforward
C array which will be much easier and more efficient to handle than
constantly bouncing back into the fdt layer to read each uint32_t.
I've also just realised that I'm assuming that the pointer returned
by fdt_getprop() is naturally aligned for a 32 bit integer if the
property is a 32 bit integer -- is that valid?
-- PMM
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] hw/vexpress.c: Allow >4GB of RAM for Cortex-A15 daughterboard, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Maydell, 2012/07/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Crosthwaite, 2012/07/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Maydell, 2012/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Maydell, 2012/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Crosthwaite, 2012/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Maydell, 2012/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Maydell, 2012/07/10
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] device_tree: Add support for reading device tree properties, Peter Crosthwaite, 2012/07/12
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] hw/arm_boot.c: Consistently use ram_size from arm_boot_info struct, Peter Maydell, 2012/07/05