linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] MIPS: Malta: fix alignment of the devicetree buffer

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Date:   Thu, 2 Sep 2021 11:03:24 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] MIPS: Malta: fix alignment of the devicetree buffer

On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 09:19:51AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Starting with following patch MIPS Malta is not able to boot:
> | commit 79edff12060fe7772af08607eff50c0e2486c5ba
> | Author: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
> | scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9
> 
> The reason is the alignment test added to the fdt_ro_probe_(). To fix
> this issue, we need to make sure that fdt_buf is aligned.
> 
> Since the dtc patch was designed to uncover potential issue, I handle
> initial MIPS Malta patch as initial bug.
> 
> Fixes: e81a8c7dabac ("MIPS: Malta: Setup RAM regions via DT")
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-dtshim.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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