[PATCH] kexec:arm: support zImage with appended device tree

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On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 05:55:38PM +0900, Hoeun Ryu wrote:
> Arm linux supports zImage with appended dtb (CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB) and
> the concatenated image is generated like `cat zImage dtb > zImage_w_dtb`.

We support that only for the purpose of allowing old boot loaders that
are not DT aware to load kernels that require DT.  If it weren't for
that, we wouldn't have it.

I don't see why we should propagate this hack to other systems such as
kexec, especially when they have native DT support.

-- 
Russell King



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