From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>,
od@zcrc.me, "open list:MIPS" <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: boot/compressed: Copy DTB to aligned address
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 09:45:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210306084513.GA5453@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_JsqLfkjC4c4PYfm6yJLZMH-5WaKA_mr9ziJ1J63UohcgRCw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 02:37:55PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:33 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> wrote:
> >
> > Since 5.12-rc1, the Device Tree blob must now be properly aligned.
>
> I had checked the other built-in cases as microblaze broke too, but
> missed some of the many ways MIPS can have a dtb. Appended and
> built-in DTBs were supposed to be temporary. :(
and a fdt can also be provided by firmware. And according to spec
there is no aligmnet requirement. So this whole change will break
then. What was the reason for the whole churn ?
Thomas.
--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-06 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 19:33 [PATCH] MIPS: boot/compressed: Copy DTB to aligned address Paul Cercueil
2021-03-03 20:37 ` Rob Herring
2021-03-03 20:57 ` Paul Cercueil
2021-03-04 22:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-03-06 8:45 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2021-03-06 21:35 ` Rob Herring
2021-03-06 22:58 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2021-03-08 17:04 ` Rob Herring
2021-03-08 17:45 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2021-03-08 10:53 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
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