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David Gibson e3b32b75b5 dtc: Extend and better test dtbs_equal utility programs (resend)
The dtbs_equal_ordered test program is used to implement a number of
testcases.  However, the test program itself has never been
particularly well tested.  In addition there are testcases coming in
future for which it would be useful to have a corresponding
"dtbs_equal_unordered" which checks for equality of device trees, not
considering the internal ordering of elements.  Finally, for some
tests we may want it would be useful to check trees for equality with
the PASS case being when they are *not* equal.

This patch addresses all of the above.  A dtbs_equal_unordered is
added, and both it and the existing dtbs_equal_ordered program now
take a -n option to make the PASS case be where the trees are not
equal.  A number of example trees with slight modifications from
test_tree1 are used to verify that both these programs correctly
identify when the tree is altered, and a dtb_reverse program is used
to verify that the unordered version does not depend on internal
ordering.  These new testcases for the equality testing programs are
split out into a new test group in run_tests.sh.

dtbs_equal_unordered uses the new property iteration functions, and so
this also acts as further testing for those functions.
dtbs_equal_unordered will be useful for further testing the recently
added tree-merging code and its upcoming extensions.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2010-04-30 08:36:54 -05:00
Documentation Some Documentation fixes and generalizations. 2008-10-03 09:42:26 -05:00
libfdt libfdt: Implement property iteration functions 2010-03-10 08:13:00 -06:00
scripts Add DTC release version information. 2007-07-07 13:52:25 -05:00
tests dtc: Extend and better test dtbs_equal utility programs (resend) 2010-04-30 08:36:54 -05:00
.gitignore Update .gitignore files 2010-02-25 11:47:58 -06:00
GPL dtc: Remove redundant copy of the GPL 2007-06-25 21:43:11 -05:00
Makefile dtc: Add -Wredundant-decls (resend) 2010-04-30 08:36:47 -05:00
Makefile.convert-dtsv0 Implement and use an xstrdup() function 2008-10-03 11:12:33 -05:00
Makefile.dtc Implement and use an xstrdup() function 2008-10-03 11:12:33 -05:00
Makefile.ftdump Rearrange ftdump and convert-dtsv0 into sub-Makefiles. 2008-10-03 10:50:28 -05:00
README.license dtc/libfdt: Add README clarifying licensing 2008-01-04 08:37:36 -06:00
TODO dtc: Update TODO files 2007-12-19 08:20:26 -06:00
checks.c dtc: Allow multiple labels on nodes and properties 2010-02-24 08:48:51 -06:00
convert-dtsv0-lexer.l dtc: Add -Wredundant-decls (resend) 2010-04-30 08:36:47 -05:00
data.c dtc: Make many functions 'static' 2008-08-13 13:04:39 -05:00
dtc-lexer.l dtc: Add -Wredundant-decls (resend) 2010-04-30 08:36:47 -05:00
dtc-parser.y Allow device tree to be modified by additonal device tree sections 2010-02-25 11:46:01 -06:00
dtc.c dtc: Simpler interface to source file management 2010-01-14 07:52:25 -06:00
dtc.h Allow device tree to be modified by additonal device tree sections 2010-02-25 11:46:01 -06:00
flattree.c dtc: Allow multiple labels on nodes and properties 2010-02-24 08:48:51 -06:00
fstree.c dtc: Allow multiple labels on nodes and properties 2010-02-24 08:48:51 -06:00
ftdump.c Assorted cleanups and extensions for ftdump 2009-11-17 08:09:04 -06:00
livetree.c Allow device tree to be modified by additonal device tree sections 2010-02-25 11:46:01 -06:00
srcpos.c dtc: Cleanup YYLTYPE and YYLLOC_DEFAULT declarations 2010-01-14 07:53:00 -06:00
srcpos.h dtc: Cleanup YYLTYPE and YYLLOC_DEFAULT declarations 2010-01-14 07:53:00 -06:00
treesource.c dtc: Allow multiple labels on nodes and properties 2010-02-24 08:48:51 -06:00
util.c dtc: Correct headers in util.c 2010-03-03 07:55:54 -06:00
util.h dtc: Simpler interface to source file management 2010-01-14 07:52:25 -06:00

README.license

Licensing and contribution policy of dtc and libfdt
===================================================

This dtc package contains two pieces of software: dtc itself, and
libfdt which comprises the files in the libfdt/ subdirectory.  These
two pieces of software, although closely related, are quite distinct.
dtc does not incoporate or rely on libfdt for its operation, nor vice
versa.  It is important that these two pieces of software have
different license conditions.

As the copyright banners in each source file attest, dtc is licensed
under the GNU GPL.  The full text of the GPL can be found in the file
entitled 'GPL' which should be included in this package.  dtc code,
therefore, may not be incorporated into works which do not have a GPL
compatible license.

libfdt, however, is GPL/BSD dual-licensed.  That is, it may be used
either under the terms of the GPL, or under the terms of the 2-clause
BSD license (aka the ISC license).  The full terms of that license are
given in the copyright banners of each of the libfdt source files.
This is, in practice, equivalent to being BSD licensed, since the
terms of the BSD license are strictly more permissive than the GPL.

I made the decision to license libfdt in this way because I want to
encourage widespread and correct usage of flattened device trees,
including by proprietary or otherwise GPL-incompatible firmware or
tools.  Allowing libfdt to be used under the terms of the BSD license
makes that it easier for vendors or authors of such software to do so.

This does mean that libfdt code could be "stolen" - say, included in a
proprietary fimware and extended without contributing those extensions
back to the libfdt mainline.  While I hope that doesn't happen, I
believe the goal of allowing libfdt to be widely used is more
important than avoiding that.  libfdt is quite small, and hardly
rocket science; so the incentive for such impolite behaviour is small,
and the inconvenience caused therby is not dire.

Licenses such as the LGPL which would allow code to be used in non-GPL
software, but also require contributions to be returned were
considered.  However, libfdt is designed to be used in firmwares and
other environments with unusual technical constraints.  It's difficult
to anticipate all possible changes which might be needed to meld
libfdt into such environments and so difficult to suitably word a
license that puts the boundary between what is and isn't permitted in
the intended place.  Again, I judged encouraging widespread use of
libfdt by keeping the license terms simple and familiar to be the more
important goal.

**IMPORTANT** It's intended that all of libfdt as released remain
permissively licensed this way.  Therefore only contributions which
are released under these terms can be merged into the libfdt mainline.


David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
(principal original author of dtc and libfdt)
2 November 2007