Messages in this thread | | | From | Segher Boessenkool <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:36:19 +0100 |
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>> Simple system tools should not need to interpret binary data in >> order to provide access to simple structured data like this, that's >> just stupid. > > I would agree with you if the data was properly typed in the first > place > but it's not,
OF device tree properties are "properly typed" just fine -- it's just that only the intended consumers of the data know what to expect, you certainly can't derive the data structures from just looking at the data in one instance of a property.
Put another way, if you know what you are looking for in the device tree, you can decode a property just fine -- if you're given a random property on the other hand, you can never get any better than the generic property structure of "array of bytes".
Segher
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