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From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
To: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:28:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <512604EB.3030805@imgtec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512602C4.1090400@synopsys.com>

On 21/02/13 11:19, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2013 08:22 PM, James Hogan wrote:
>> Make a copy of the device tree blob in non-init memory. It is required
>> when using built-in device tree files that the platform code copies the
>> blob to non-init memory prior to calling unflatten_device_tree(),
>> otherwise the strings that the device tree refer to will get poisoned
>> and potentially reused, breaking later reading of the device tree
>> post-init (such as compatible matching in modules, debugfs, and the
>> procfs interface).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> 
> In case you need it - Reviewed-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>

Thanks Vineet,

Cheers
James


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-21 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-20 14:52 [PATCH 0/2] metag: copy flattened devicetree to non-init memory James Hogan
2013-02-20 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] metag: copy " James Hogan
2013-02-21  9:08   ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-21  9:34     ` James Hogan
2013-02-21 11:18       ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-21 11:19   ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-21 11:28     ` James Hogan [this message]
2013-02-20 14:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve() James Hogan

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