On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 02:06:37AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > This is a resend of those patches with fixups after the latest changes > > in mainline. > > > > [PATCH 1/3] ARM: zImage: ensure it is always a multiple of 64 bits in size > > This one is new and trivial. > > > > [PATCH 2/3] ARM: zImage: Allow the appending of a device tree binary > > Mostly John Bonesio's version with some adjustments and cleanups. > > > > [PATCH 3/3] ARM: zImage: make sure appended DTB doesn't get overwritten by > > kernel .bss > > New, simpler alternative to Tony Lindgren's version. > > One thing which has been bugging me for some time is that the DT stuff > completely overrides the ATAGs. This is wrong with solutions like this. > > We have a set of perfectly good boot loaders which provide correct > information to the kernel via ATAGs. If we start moving everything > over to DT, then we run into a problem because the ATAGs are ignored - > stuff such as the RAM size and command line passed from the boot loader > will be entirely ignored, instead these having to be encoded into the > kernel at build time. > What u-boot does right now is replacing the parameters in dtb with its for those it's interested in, for example command line is one, before it passes dtb to kernel.
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