[sodaville] [PATCH 2/4] of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/15/2010 08:37 AM, Dirk Brandewie wrote:
>>
>> To match other definitions in this file, this should be defined with
>> parentheses: #define KERNEL_DTB()
>>
>>> +	. = ALIGN(32);							\
>>> +	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__dtb_start) = .;				\
>>> +	*(.dtb)			       					\
>>
>> I wonder if .meminit.rodata.dtb be a better section name.  Could use
>> some input from more experienced kernel hackers here.  hpa, what say
>> you?
> 
> I will use what ever name seems reasonable,  It turns out that the sections that 
> are named *.init.rodata are really in a R/W section :-( so that name is really a 
> misnomer.  I will check with HPA on name again.
> 

I think they should be named *rodata* just to indicate that they should
eventually be moved to a readonly section.

	-hpa