Am 23.07.2013 um 23:19 schrieb Scott Wood <address@hidden>:
> On 07/23/2013 04:15:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 23.07.2013, at 21:38, Scott Wood wrote:
>> > On 07/22/2013 10:28:17 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> >> Today we generate the device tree once on machine
initialization and then
>> >> store the finalized blob in memory to reload it on reset.
>> >> This is bad for 2 reasons. First we potentially waste a bunch
of RAM for no
>> >> good reason, as we have all information required to regenerate
the device
>> >> tree available anyways.
>> >> The second reason is even more important. On machine init when
we generate
>> >> the device tree for the first time, we don't have all of the
devices fully
>> >> initialized yet. But the device tree needs to potentially walk
devices to
>> >> put information about them into the device tree.
>> >
>> > If you can't produce the entire device tree at init time, how
can you calculate its size with a dry run?
>> >
>> > Device trees are generally pretty small; couldn't we just set a
maximum size and allocate that much space?
>> It's what we do, unless we load it from the disk. In that case we
take the fdt size from disk.
>
> So why do we need the dry run stuff?
Because dumpdtb otherwise generates a halfway complete dtb on the
first dry pass as device realization is yet incomplete :).