From 7941b27b16e3282f6ec8817e36492f1deec753a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pantelis Antoniou Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 19:59:20 +0300 Subject: of: Introduce Device Tree resolve support. Introduce support for dynamic device tree resolution. Using it, it is possible to prepare a device tree that's been loaded on runtime to be modified and inserted at the kernel live tree. Export of of_resolve and bug fix of double free by Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou [grant.likely: Don't need to select CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC and CONFIG_OF_DEVICE] [grant.likely: Don't need to depend on OF or !SPARC] [grant.likely: Factor out duplicate code blocks into single function] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely --- .../devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt (limited to 'Documentation/devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..083d23262abe --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/dynamic-resolution-notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Device Tree Dynamic Resolver Notes +---------------------------------- + +This document describes the implementation of the in-kernel +Device Tree resolver, residing in drivers/of/resolver.c and is a +companion document to Documentation/devicetree/dt-object-internal.txt[1] + +How the resolver works +---------------------- + +The resolver is given as an input an arbitrary tree compiled with the +proper dtc option and having a /plugin/ tag. This generates the +appropriate __fixups__ & __local_fixups__ nodes as described in [1]. + +In sequence the resolver works by the following steps: + +1. Get the maximum device tree phandle value from the live tree + 1. +2. Adjust all the local phandles of the tree to resolve by that amount. +3. Using the __local__fixups__ node information adjust all local references + by the same amount. +4. For each property in the __fixups__ node locate the node it references + in the live tree. This is the label used to tag the node. +5. Retrieve the phandle of the target of the fixup. +6. For each fixup in the property locate the node:property:offset location + and replace it with the phandle value. -- cgit v1.2.3