This adds support for parsing simple (non-escaped) 'x' character
literal syntax in bytestrings.  For example:

    property = ['a' 2b 'c'];

is equivalent to:

    property = [61 2b 62];

Signed-off-by: Anton Staaf <[email protected]>
Cc: Jon Loeliger <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/dts-format.txt |    5 +++--
 Documentation/manual.txt     |    3 ++-
 dtc-lexer.l                  |    8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dts-format.txt b/Documentation/dts-format.txt
index a655b87..d191eeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/dts-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dts-format.txt
@@ -48,11 +48,12 @@ NUL-terminated strings, as bytestrings or a combination of 
these.
        e.g. compatible = "simple-bus";
 
 * A bytestring is enclosed in square brackets [] with each byte
-  represented by two hexadecimal digits.  Spaces between each byte are
-  optional.
+  represented by two hexadecimal digits or a character literal.
+  Spaces between each byte or character literal are optional.
 
        e.g. local-mac-address = [00 00 12 34 56 78]; or equivalently
             local-mac-address = [000012345678];
+       e.g. keymap = ['a' 'b' 'c' 'd'];
 
 * Values may have several comma-separated components, which are
   concatenated together.
diff --git a/Documentation/manual.txt b/Documentation/manual.txt
index f8a8a7b..f38a995 100644
--- a/Documentation/manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/manual.txt
@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ For example:
 
 By default, all numeric values are hexadecimal.  Alternate bases
 may be specified using a prefix "d#" for decimal, "b#" for binary,
-and "o#" for octal.
+and "o#" for octal.  Character literals are supported in
+byte sequences using the C language character literal syntax of 'a'.
 
 Strings support common escape sequences from C: "\n", "\t", "\r",
 "\(octal value)", "\x(hex value)".
diff --git a/dtc-lexer.l b/dtc-lexer.l
index e866ea5..1276c6f 100644
--- a/dtc-lexer.l
+++ b/dtc-lexer.l
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ PROPNODECHAR  [a-zA-Z0-9,._+*#?@-]
 PATHCHAR       ({PROPNODECHAR}|[/])
 LABEL          [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*
 STRING         \"([^\\"]|\\.)*\"
+CHAR_LITERAL   '[^\\']'
 WS             [[:space:]]
 COMMENT                "/*"([^*]|\*+[^*/])*\*+"/"
 LINECOMMENT    "//".*\n
@@ -128,6 +129,13 @@ static int pop_input_file(void);
                        return DT_BYTE;
                }
 
+<BYTESTRING>{CHAR_LITERAL} {
+                       DPRINT("Character literal: %s\n", yytext);
+                       yylval.byte = yytext[1];
+                       DPRINT("Byte: %02x\n", (int)yylval.byte);
+                       return DT_BYTE;
+               }
+
 <BYTESTRING>"]"        {
                        DPRINT("/BYTESTRING\n");
                        BEGIN_DEFAULT();
-- 
1.7.3.1

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