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

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Message-ID: <20210306084513.GA5453@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Sat, 6 Mar 2021 09:45:13 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>, 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, Mar 03, 2021 at 02:37:55PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:33 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net> 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. :(

and a fdt can also be provided by firmware. And according to spec
there is no aligmnet requirement. So this whole change will break
then. What was the reason for the whole churn ?

Thomas.

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