From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
To: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Cc: kernel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org,
Rob Herring <rob.herring-bsGFqQB8/DxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/devicetree: make semantic of initrd-end more explicit
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:27:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1366892877-30912-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt
index ef9d06c..0efedaa 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt
@@ -191,9 +191,11 @@ Linux it will look something like this:
};
The bootargs property contains the kernel arguments, and the initrd-*
-properties define the address and size of an initrd blob. The
-chosen node may also optionally contain an arbitrary number of
-additional properties for platform-specific configuration data.
+properties define the address and size of an initrd blob. Note that
+initrd-end is the first address after the initrd image, so this doesn't
+match the usual semantic of struct resource. The chosen node may also
+optionally contain an arbitrary number of additional properties for
+platform-specific configuration data.
During early boot, the architecture setup code calls of_scan_flat_dt()
several times with different helper callbacks to parse device tree
--
1.8.2.rc2
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2013-04-25 12:27 Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
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2013-04-25 21:48 ` [PATCH] Documentation/devicetree: make semantic of initrd-end more explicit Rob Herring
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