[PATCH 2/3] ARM: zImage: Allow the appending of a device tree binary

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Jun 13 06:46:49 EDT 2011


* Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> [110611 23:03]:
> From: John Bonesio <bones at secretlab.ca>
> 
> This patch provides the ability to boot using a device tree that is appended
> to the raw binary zImage (e.g. cat zImage <filename>.dtb > zImage_w_dtb).
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Bonesio <bones at secretlab.ca>
> [nico: adjusted to latest zImage changes plus additional cleanups]
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>

Looks like this rebased version has two nice improvments: It uses r5
instead of lr, and keeps stack usable early on :)

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>



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