From: geoff@infradead.org (Geoff Levand)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2 4/6] arm64: Add DTS support for FSL's LS2085A SoC
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:17:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409768248.21254.150.camel@smoke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140903175340.GN3127@leverpostej>
Hi Mark,
On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 18:53 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Be aware that if you have set it up this way, users will not be able to
> > use this file with kexec's --dtb=FILE to specify a 2nd stage DT file.
> > kexec will use a copy of the DT from the 1st stage in this case.
>
> Surely the latter is the default and the former is the "trust me I know
> what I'm doing" case?
>
> In general there are other things you might need to fill in anyhow (like
> dynamically populated memory), so I don't see that as a big isssue
> (though admittedly painful if you're testing things in that area).
Yes, the --dtb=FILE is for flexibility in testing and also could
help in the case where an old kernel + dt is installed as a kexec
based boot loader and a new DT is desired in booting a newer kernel.
One could always hand edit a DTS file to be acceptable to kexec-tools
though.
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-03 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-28 9:55 [PATCH V2 0/6] ARM64: Add support for FSL's LS2085A SoC Bhupesh Sharma
2014-08-28 9:55 ` [PATCH V2 1/6] Documentation: DT: Add bindings for FSL NS16550A UART Bhupesh Sharma
2014-08-28 9:55 ` [PATCH V2 2/6] Documentation: DT: Add entry for FSL LS2085A SoC and Simulator model Bhupesh Sharma
2014-08-28 9:55 ` [PATCH V2 3/6] Documentation: DT: Add entry for FSL Management Complex Bhupesh Sharma
2014-08-28 9:55 ` [PATCH V2 4/6] arm64: Add DTS support for FSL's LS2085A SoC Bhupesh Sharma
2014-08-28 14:56 ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-29 15:51 ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-08-29 17:47 ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-29 18:07 ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-09-02 10:05 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-09-02 10:14 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-09-02 10:27 ` bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com
2014-09-02 10:19 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-09-03 17:23 ` Geoff Levand
2014-09-03 17:53 ` Mark Rutland
2014-09-03 18:17 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2014-08-28 9:55 ` [PATCH V2 5/6] arm64: dts/Makefile: Add support for FSL's LS2085A simulator model Bhupesh Sharma
2014-08-28 9:55 ` [PATCH V2 6/6] arm64: Add support for FSL's LS2085A SoC in Kconfig and defconfig Bhupesh Sharma
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