What I'd like to see come out of this is a dts-like set of flash descriptors, with the rules left in the makefiles. At the very least, dts is not a new language.
Just wanted to point out (without trying to usurp any of the ongoing discussion in that doc) that we already have an FMAP descriptor language that was implemented in cbfstool half a year ago, because I don't think that got much visibility upstream when it was merged. That's the FMD (flash map descriptor) format some of us are talking about in those comments, which was developed in anticipation of a build system redesign like this. It's aiming to describe FMAPs in a clean, flexible way without the cruft of a format (dts) that was never really meant for that purpose, and has some nice features (like variable-sized sections) built-in. The parser can be seen in util/cbfstool/fmd.c, and a sample file would look something like this (in general, '@offset' is the base offset to the parent section and the number after the space is the size):
HOST_FIRMWARE@0xff800000 8M { SI_ALL 2M { SI_DESC 4K SI_ME 0x1ff000 } SI_BIOS { RW_A 0xf0000 { VBLOCK_A 64K RW_MAIN_A RW_FWID_A 0x40 } RW_B 0xf0000 { VBLOCK_B 64K RW_MAIN_B RW_FWID_B 0x40 } RO@4M { RO_VPD 16K FMAP@0x10000 2K RO_FRID 0x40 GBB@0x11000 RO_MAIN 1M } } }