Re: [PATCH 1/4] of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux

Grant Likely
2010-12-23T21:44:10Z

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 07:14:20AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 2010/12/22 Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>:
> > On 22.12.2010 20:57, dirk.brandewie@gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Dirk Brandewie<dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
> >> vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
> >> .dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
> >> driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
> >> before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.
> >>
> >> Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
> >> compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
> >> wrap the blobs for linking.
> >>
> >> STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
> >> create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib.  The
> >> STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
> >> STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.
> >>
> >> The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
> >> with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
> >> to get the structure alignment GCC expects.
> >>
> >> A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
> >> be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
> >>    obj-y += foo.dtb.o
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie<dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > you can add
> > Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> > but I thing this series should go through the tip tree, as your primary
> > target seems to be x86 and patch 2/4 depends on the ce4100 code that is only
> > in tip.
>
> If the two lines
>
> +# device tree blob
> +obj-$(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_CE) += ce4100.dtb.o
>
> are removed, patch 2/4 no longer depends on the ce4100 code.
> The summary and description for that patch don't mention anything
> about ce4100 anyway.

I'd like to take this through the dt tree. I'll drop the ce4100 hunk
when I merge it.

g.

>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
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