[PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage

[davidb@codeaurora.org (David Brown)]

On Tue, Jun 14 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> +		} else if (atag->hdr.tag == ATAG_MEM) {
> +			uint32_t mem_reg_property[2];
> +			mem_reg_property[0] = cpu_to_fdt32(atag->u.mem.start);
> +			mem_reg_property[1] = cpu_to_fdt32(atag->u.mem.size);
> +			setprop(dt, "/memory", "reg", mem_reg_property,
> +			           sizeof(mem_reg_property));

Hopefully, I'll be able to get zImages working on MSM8x60 today, and I
can test this.  I think the above might need some work to handle
multiple ATAG_MEM attributes (our memory isn't contiguous).  I can look
at this once I get it working.

Does this mean that merging appended DTB and atags requires using a
compressed kernel?  It seems that several years ago, someone tested the
decompressor on a slow MSM and decided to boot from the uncompressed
image, and nobody has bothered with the compressed image.  I don't think
it is a problem to require zImage for this case, though.

David

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