On Fri, 13 May 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote: > From: Tony Lindgren <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 05:29:49 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] ARM: zImage: Make sure appended device tree data won't > overlap kernel BSS > > Do this before relocating the compressed kernel + device tree data. > Otherwise we would have to split the copying into two parts, or copy > the device tree data twice. > > As we only have one register available, pass the size of kernel BSS > via linker and do the calculation using r1, then save it to the stack. > > Note that this patch now makes the stack also usable earlier for > CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB. > > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[email protected]> [...]
Please tell me what you think of this alternative: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/120182 I think it is a cleaner solution. Nicolas _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
