2010/12/22 Michal Marek [off-list ref]:

On 22.12.2010 20:57, dirk.brandewie@gmail.com wrote:

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From: Dirk Brandewie<redacted>

This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
.dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.

Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
wrap the blobs for linking.

STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib. =C2=A0The
STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.

The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
to get the structure alignment GCC expects.

A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
=C2=A0 =C2=A0obj-y +=3D foo.dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie<redacted>

Hi,

you can add
Acked-by: Michal Marek <redacted>
but I thing this series should go through the tip tree, as your primary
target seems to be x86 and patch 2/4 depends on the ce4100 code that is o=

nly

in tip.

If the two lines

+# device tree blob
+obj-$(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_CE) +=3D ce4100.dtb.o

are removed, patch 2/4 no longer depends on the ce4100 code.
The summary and description for that patch don't mention anything
about ce4100 anyway.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

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