linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Implement the -a option to pad dtb aligned

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:41:03 -0700
From:	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:	Tim Wang <timwang@...micro.com>
Cc:	robh+dt@...nel.org, grant.likely@...aro.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	wtt_usst@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement the -a option to pad dtb aligned

Hi Tim,

On 06/24/16 04:19, Tim Wang wrote:
> There is one condition that need cat the dtb files
> into one dtb.img which can support several boards
> use same SoC platform.
> 
> And the original dtb file size is not aligned to any base.
> This may cause "Synchronous Abort" when load from a unligned
> address on some SoC machine, such as ARM.
> 
> So this patch implement the -a <aligned number> option to
> pad zero at the end of dtb files and make the dtb size aligned
> to <aligned number>.
> 
> Then, the aligned dtbs can cat together and load without "Synchronous
> Abort".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Wang <timwang@...micro.com>
> ---
>  dtc.c      |  9 ++++++++-
>  dtc.h      |  1 +
>  flattree.c | 10 ++++++++++

[ ... ]

The MAINTAINERS file is not very helpful in this case.
You need to send dtc patches to the devicetree-compiler list

  devicetree-compiler@...r.kernel.org

Subscription info is at

  http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#devicetree-compiler

After changes are made by the dtc maintainer, we pull the new
version of dtc into the Linux tree.

-Frank