Re: PATCH: Add memreserve to DTC

My mistake, I misunderstood the terminology.  But the basic point is
that lots of things in the kernel already assume a cell is 32-bits, so
it would be silly to try and change that here.  This is not true for
the memreserve values.

Of course you should use 32-bit values; but please just don't call it
a cell, there's nothing more confusing than messing up terminology.

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Btw -- beware of the fact that such an "int" does _not_ have any
alignment restrictions -- so you better read it byte by byte...

Erm.. in what context.  dtc never reads ints from the blob format as
ints - properties are just byte strings to it.  At present you can't
mix cell input format with other sorts, which means the ints must, in
fact, be aligned, since properties are.

When reading integers from properties that have been created by an OF
implementation.  Whether this is a problem for DTC or not, I don't know;
I just thought I'd mention the problem to you, people fall in that trap
again and again.


Segher