[PATCH] ARM:boot:device tree: Allow the device tree binary to be appended to zImage

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:52:32PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:44:22AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:58:00PM -0800, John Bonesio wrote:

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This patch provides the ability to boot using a device tree that is appended
to the raw binary zImage (e.g. cat zImage <filename>.dtb > zImage_w_dtb).

Signed-off-by: John Bonesio <redacted>
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 arch/arm/Kconfig                |    7 ++++
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S |   75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

I played this patch on mx51 babbage a little bit, and noticed that it
introduces one difference on both non-dt and dt kernel booting.  The

To be clear, the difference is being seen when I do not even enable
CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB.

That would definitely be a bug then.

g.