Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:25:02 -0600 | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] |
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 2:01 PM, jonsmirl@gmail.com <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> wrote: >>> Let's see how many people go and scream if I say this: Too bad .dts files >>> are not done using XML format as DT bindings could be described using XML >>> Schema. >> >> Draft an example and show us how it would look! :-) There is >> absolutely nothing preventing us from expressing a DT in XML format, >> or even using XSLT to define DT schema while still using our current >> .dts syntax. It would be trivial to do lossless translation between >> .dts syntax and xml. >> >> The problem that I have with XML and XSLT is that it is very verbose >> and not entirely friendly to mere-mortals. However, I'm more than >> willing to be proved wrong on this point. > > I considered this approach a while ago and discarded it. It would work > but it is just too much of a Frankenstein monster. > > Much cleaner to modify dtc to take a schema as part of the compilation > process. The schema language itself has no requirement to look like > DTS syntax. Whoever wrote dtc probably has a favorite language that > would be good for writing schemas in.
Making it part of dtc is a required feature as far as I'm concerned. Using XML/XSLT and dtc-integration are not mutually exclusive, but I digress.
g.
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