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

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jun 13 07:26:04 EDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 03:46:49AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * 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 :)

One of the comments still refers to lr though.



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list