On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Pantelis Antoniou
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:06 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote:

quoted

Sure, so if we add data type supplementary properties to the tree to
indicate the data type as "indirect phandle", then kernel could refer
to the index in the got-like table to fetch the actual phandle address
(1-level of indirection), instead of directly using the address in the
data field.

I'm fine with this.

But if the data about phandles is already in the tree, then the need
for a GOT simply goes away. The phandles can be fixed up directly and
it is so much better because it works with existing parsing code after
the merge is applied.

g.