On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 07:23:01PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> The devicetree specification requires 8-byte alignment in
> memory. This is now enforced by libfdt since commit 79edff12060f
> ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> which included the upstream commit 5e735860c478 ("libfdt: Check for
> 8-byte address alignment in fdt_ro_probe_()").
>
> This broke the MIPS raw appended DTBs which would be appended to
> the image immediately following the initramfs section. This ends
> with a 32bit size, resulting in a 4-byte alignment of the DTB.
>
> Fix by padding with zeroes to 8-bytes when MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB
> is defined.
>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
thank you for your patch, but there already was a fix for the problem
pending from Paul, which I've applied to mips-fixes a few minutes ago.
Thomas.
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