From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:49:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512602C4.1090400@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361371929-28148-2-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>
On Wednesday 20 February 2013 08:22 PM, James Hogan wrote:
> Make a copy of the device tree blob in non-init memory. It is required
> when using built-in device tree files that the platform code copies the
> blob to non-init memory prior to calling unflatten_device_tree(),
> otherwise the strings that the device tree refer to will get poisoned
> and potentially reused, breaking later reading of the device tree
> post-init (such as compatible matching in modules, debugfs, and the
> procfs interface).
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
In case you need it - Reviewed-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-21 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-20 14:52 [PATCH 0/2] metag: copy flattened devicetree to non-init memory James Hogan
2013-02-20 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] metag: copy " James Hogan
2013-02-21 9:08 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-21 9:34 ` James Hogan
2013-02-21 11:18 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-21 11:19 ` Vineet Gupta [this message]
2013-02-21 11:28 ` James Hogan
2013-02-20 14:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve() James Hogan
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