Re: [PATCH] ARM: boot: Fix ATAGs with appended DTB

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Hi Russell,

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:57 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 06:56:06PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:49 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 07:35:14AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > > > On 25.02.2020 15:47, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > > At early boot, register r8 may contain an ATAGs or DTB pointer.
> > > > > When an appended DTB is found, its address is stored in r8, for
> > > > > extraction of the RAM base address later.
> > > > >
> > > > > However, if r8 contained an ATAGs pointer before, that pointer will be
> > > > > lost, and the provided ATAGs is no longer folded into the provided DTB.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fix this by leaving r8 untouched.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: 137e522593918be2 ("ARM: 8960/1: boot: Obtain start of physical memory from DTB")
> > > > > Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The original commit hasn't been submitted, so it can be fixed before it
> > > hits mainline if you want.  Let me know what you want to do.  Thanks.
> >
> > Fixing the original is fine for me, of course.
> > Thanks!
>
> Please submit a replacement for 8960/1, thanks.

Done.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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