[coreboot] [PATCH] RFC: autocreate Kconfig from DTS

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Aug 22 13:58:49 CEST 2008


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 22.08.2008 05:41, ron minnich wrote:
>   
>> I just realized my misgiving. You just created a new dts parser in a
>> shell script. We now have 2 dts parsers. So the idea is interesting,
>> the implementation concerns me. Could we get dtc, as part of dts
>> parsing, to generate this? Or, could we have an option to dtc to
>> generate this? We should really only have one dts parser.
>>   
>>     
>
> Yes, absolutely.
>
> However, the dtc code is horrible. I have sprinkled annotations all over
> the dtc code and I still have not figured out everything.
> Segher says that the current dtc upstream has better code quality,
> however our changes are extensive and merging will be a pain. He
> suggests to use plain upstream dtc and parse its output into our own
> formats.
Makes sense. Patches welcome.

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