[PATCHv3] ARM:boot:device tree: Allow the device tree binary to be appended to zImage

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed May 4 09:38:50 EDT 2011


On Wed, 4 May 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> * Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> [110429 12:11]:
> > I don't think the DT data is that huge, but that's a point in favor of 
> > doing it in the zImage code.  We'll just need to feed the total size of 
> > the uncompressed kernel .bss section to zImage when compiling it.
> 
> One more thing to consider though.. I don't think we want to copy the
> DT data twice. It's not big right now, but could get large if we pass
> all the clocks in it.
> 
> So this should be probably fixed in the original patch.. John got
> any thoughts on that?

No.  The original patch is good (and complex) enough as it is now.  It 
already required 3 rounds of reviews before it was right. This should be 
fixed in a subsequent patch.


Nicolas



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