From: Russell King <rmk@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec:arm: support zImage with appended device tree
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:14:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170626091412.GE837@flint.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498208138-19283-1-git-send-email-hoeun.ryu@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 05:55:38PM +0900, Hoeun Ryu wrote:
> Arm linux supports zImage with appended dtb (CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB) and
> the concatenated image is generated like `cat zImage dtb > zImage_w_dtb`.
We support that only for the purpose of allowing old boot loaders that
are not DT aware to load kernels that require DT. If it weren't for
that, we wouldn't have it.
I don't see why we should propagate this hack to other systems such as
kexec, especially when they have native DT support.
--
Russell King
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-26 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-23 8:55 [PATCH] kexec:arm: support zImage with appended device tree Hoeun Ryu
2017-06-26 2:52 ` Dave Young
2017-06-27 2:13 ` Hoeun Ryu
2017-06-26 9:14 ` Russell King [this message]
2017-06-27 2:36 ` Hoeun Ryu
2017-06-27 8:53 ` Russell King
2017-06-27 9:51 ` Hoeun Ryu
2017-07-03 16:41 ` Russell King
2017-07-04 1:41 ` Dave Young
2017-07-04 2:09 ` Hoeun Ryu
2017-07-04 2:09 ` Hoeun Ryu
2017-06-26 9:15 ` Pratyush Anand
2017-06-27 2:52 ` Hoeun Ryu
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