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

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Mon Jun 13 10:08:55 EDT 2011


On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> 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.

Heh.  Fixed.


Nicolas



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