[PATCH 0/4] Support for device-tree appended to zImage
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at freescale.com
Tue Mar 1 13:58:37 EST 2011
Hi John,
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:33:18PM -0800, John Bonesio wrote:
> The following series support for device tree binary blobs (dtb) that are
> appended to the compressed kernel image (zImage).
>
> Having appended dtb data is not required to boot with a device tree. If no dtb
> data is appended to zImage, the kernel will boot using prior methods.
>
> ---
>
> John Bonesio (4):
> ARM:boot:device tree: Allow the device tree binary to be appended to zImage
> ARM:boot:device tree: Merge specific atags into the device tree
> ARM:boot:device tree: Add puthex routine for use in the boot wrapper
> ARM:boot:device tree: Allow multiple device trees to be appended to zImage
>
>
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 7 ++
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 31 +++++++-
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 365 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags.c
>
I'm trying to test and use it. But it does not apply against any tree
that I can find, neither mainline nor Grant's tree. Need rebasing?
--
Regards,
Shawn
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