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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-04-28 16:27:21 -0400
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-05-23 11:30:20 -0400
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treea8caf072ce7409eceb8178e952b7536bbd289460 /Documentation/applying-patches.txt
parent6291319d4864848efc7b5d81389e2404fb478cb9 (diff)
arm/dt: probe for platforms via the device tree
If a dtb is passed to the kernel then the kernel needs to iterate through compiled-in mdescs looking for one that matches and move the dtb data to a safe location before it gets accidentally overwritten by the kernel. This patch creates a new function, setup_machine_fdt() which is analogous to the setup_machine_atags() created in the previous patch. It does all the early setup needed to use a device tree machine description. v5: - Print warning with neither dtb nor atags are passed to the kernel - Fix bug in setting of __machine_arch_type to the selected machine, not just the last machine in the list. Reported-by: Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - Copy command line directly into boot_command_line instead of cmd_line v4: - Dump some output when a matching machine_desc cannot be found v3: - Added processing of reserved list. - Backed out the v2 change that copied instead of reserved the dtb. dtb is reserved again and the real problem was fixed by using alloc_bootmem_align() for early allocation of RAM for unflattening the tree. - Moved cmd_line and initrd changes to earlier patch to make series bisectable. v2: Changed to save the dtb by copying into an allocated buffer. - Since the dtb will very likely be passed in the first 16k of ram where the interrupt vectors live, memblock_reserve() is insufficient to protect the dtb data. [based on work originally written by Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>] Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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