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On 04/05/2016 07:11 PM, Antonio Borneo wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,

> I'm not expert on the x86 memory map at boot and during kernel
> boot; I found easy to just append the dtb to the kernel image.
>>>From my tests this patch is working fine.
> If you have any hint for a different loading address for dtb, I
> would be glad to modify this code.

If I remember correctly, the kernel makes a copy of the dtb on order
not to rely on any specific memory layout (same as with initrd).

> 
> Regards,
> Antonio

Sebastian