linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: boot/compressed: Copy DTB to aligned address

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Date:   Thu, 4 Mar 2021 23:53:03 +0100 (CET)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
cc:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>, od@...c.me,
        "open list:MIPS" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: boot/compressed: Copy DTB to aligned address

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Rob Herring wrote:

> > Since 5.12-rc1, the Device Tree blob must now be properly aligned.
> 
> I had checked the other built-in cases as microblaze broke too, but
> missed some of the many ways MIPS can have a dtb. Appended and
> built-in DTBs were supposed to be temporary. :(

 How is it supposed to work otherwise when all that a piece of firmware 
loads is an SREC image (over TFTP)?

  Maciej