Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: decompressor: support AUTO_ZRELADDR and appended DTB

["Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 11:26:49AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> FTR, I did provide my Tested-by for the first patch in [1].
> I still have this series in my local tree, which I test regularly on
> a variety of Renesas ARM32 platforms and on BeagleBone Black.
> 
> In fact, I had completely forgotten about this series, to the point
> that I bisected a failure in booting mainline on one of my boards
> using my current .config to the absence of the first patch ;-)
> Apparently during the past years, I had modified my .config to make it
> more generic, and make better use of the DTB (incl. chosen/bootargs),
> which has a dependency on the first patch...

What I would like to know is why anyone is using appended DTBs in this
day and age, when surely by now, Arm based boot loaders have realised
that Arm moved to use device trees ages ago, and the kernel requires
a DTB in addition to the kernel image itself.

Appended DTB support was only there as a stop-gap for those boot
loaders that were around before DTB support was added, and have no
capability of dealing with a separate DTB.

Come on. It's 2026. DTB has been supported on 32-bit ARM for fifteen
years. Surely everyone's now got modern boot loaders.

If not, it's time to say this: fix the boot loader.

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