linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux

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Message-ID: <20101223214405.GG20384@angua.secretlab.ca>
Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:44:06 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dirk.brandewie@...il.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into
 vmlinux

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 07:14:20AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 2010/12/22 Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>:
> > On 22.12.2010 20:57, dirk.brandewie@...il.com wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Dirk Brandewie<dirk.brandewie@...il.com>
> >>
> >> 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.  The
> >> 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
> >>    obj-y += foo.dtb.o
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie<dirk.brandewie@...il.com>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > you can add
> > Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> > 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 only
> > in tip.
> 
> If the two lines
> 
> +# device tree blob
> +obj-$(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_CE) += 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.

I'd like to take this through the dt tree.  I'll drop the ce4100 hunk
when I merge it.

g.

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
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> 
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