Re: Appended devicetree with Torvalds' HEAD

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:35:53AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

Hi, I'm new to device tree work but I'm told to
help out.

Does anyone happen to run a mainline kernel with
zImage-appended device tree?

Or:

Are there out-of-tree patches required to do this?
(I guess so.)

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/6044/match=allow+dtb+appended+arm+zImage+atag+conversion

And:

Do they actually work?

Yes, with a small fix on patch #4 given by David Brown in the thread.

Regards,
Shawn