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    [POWERPC] Update documentation for flat device tree format v17 · 0e0293c8
    David Gibson authored
    This patch updates booting-without-of.txt to describe version 17 of
    the flattened device tree format.  Version 17 is a small, backwards
    compatible change from version 16, adding an extra field giving the
    size of the device tree's structure block.  At this time, the kernel
    has no use for the extra information, however its presence can make
    life easier for bootloaders or other software manipulating the tree.
    
    In addition this patch adds information on the size_dt_strings field
    of the device tree header, present since version 3 of the flattened
    tree format, but omitted from the documentation.  It also makes
    changes to consistently refer to versions 16 and 17 as versions 16 and
    17 in decimal, rather than version 0x10 which was occasionally used
    for version 16 previously.
    
    Finally, we also add the new field to the definition of the device
    tree header structure in prom.h
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Acked-by: default avatarJon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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