| libfdt is an open-source library released under the BSD license: |
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| libfdt - Flat Device Tree manipulation |
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| Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or |
| without modification, are permitted provided that the following |
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| libfdt allows flattened device trees to be represented as a |
| "blob", which is a compact flattened format. This is useful, |
| particularly for embedded systems, such as ARM, because it |
| allows many different devices to be included in a single binary |
| allowing for a high level of portability. |
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| The source and more information about the library can be found |
| here: |
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| http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/UBootFdtInfo |
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| 1) D. Gibson, B. Herrenschmidt. Device trees everywhere. 2006. |
| http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/papers/dtc-paper.pdf |
