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

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon May 9 07:23:53 EDT 2011


* John Bonesio <bones at secretlab.ca> [110324 16:17]:
> 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).

I suggest adding something like this to the description:

Note that a follow-up patch is needed to add checking for
kernel BSS overlapping the device tree data.

Other than that, I got /proc/device-tree entries showing up with
this patch + the uncompress fixes + the kernel BSS check I posted
as a reply to this thread, so:

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



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