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19537Satgutier@umich.edulibfdt is an open-source library released under the BSD license:
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39537Satgutier@umich.edulibfdt - Flat Device Tree manipulation
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319537Satgutier@umich.edulibfdt allows flattened device trees to be represented as a
329537Satgutier@umich.edu"blob", which is a compact flattened format. This is useful,
339537Satgutier@umich.eduparticularly for embedded systems, such as ARM, because it
349537Satgutier@umich.eduallows many different devices to be included in a single binary
359537Satgutier@umich.eduallowing for a high level of portability.
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379537Satgutier@umich.eduThe source and more information about the library can be found
389537Satgutier@umich.eduhere:
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409537Satgutier@umich.eduhttp://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/UBootFdtInfo
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429537Satgutier@umich.edu1) D. Gibson, B. Herrenschmidt. Device trees everywhere. 2006.
439537Satgutier@umich.eduhttp://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/papers/dtc-paper.pdf
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