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

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Date:   Mon, 8 Mar 2021 11:53:57 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, od@...c.me,
        linux-mips@...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 07:33:05PM +0000, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> Since 5.12-rc1, the Device Tree blob must now be properly aligned.
> 
> Therefore, the decompress routine must be careful to copy the blob at
> the next aligned address after the kernel image.
> 
> This commit fixes the kernel sometimes not booting with a Device Tree
> blob appended to it.
> 
> Fixes: c4d5e638d6e9 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
> ---
>  arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c | 8 ++++++++
>  arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S         | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

applied to mips-fixes.

Thomas.

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