On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 12:53 +0200, Jonas Gorski wrote: > This will break/won't compile for ZBOOT_APPENDED_DTB as __appended_dtb > is > part of the wrapping decompressor, and the kernel has no knowledge of > this > this symbol. If this were true, it wouldn't compile with the code you added to compressed/head.S, either. You're referencing it as an external symbol, which is exactly the same thing I'm doing here. Your proposed alternatives are functionally almost equivalent to your earlier rejected patches: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7274/ https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7313/