[PATCH 0/4] Support for device-tree appended to zImage

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Mon Feb 28 21:58:37 EST 2011


Hi John,

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:33:18PM -0800, John Bonesio wrote:
> The following series support for device tree binary blobs (dtb) that are
> appended to the compressed kernel image (zImage).
> 
> Having appended dtb data is not required to boot with a device tree. If no dtb
> data is appended to zImage, the kernel will boot using prior methods.
> 
> ---
> 
> John Bonesio (4):
>       ARM:boot:device tree: Allow the device tree binary to be appended to zImage
>       ARM:boot:device tree: Merge specific atags into the device tree
>       ARM:boot:device tree: Add puthex routine for use in the boot wrapper
>       ARM:boot:device tree: Allow multiple device trees to be appended to zImage
> 
> 
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                  |    7 ++
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile |   31 +++++++-
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags.c  |   70 +++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S   |  136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c   |  134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 365 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags.c
> 
I'm trying to test and use it.  But it does not apply against any tree
that I can find, neither mainline nor Grant's tree.  Need rebasing?

-- 
Regards,
Shawn




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