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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/Kconfig | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 |
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index 218aa67a2c52..71683a853372 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -2736,6 +2736,20 @@ choice help Do not enable appended dtb support. + config MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB + bool "vmlinux" + help + With this option, the boot code will look for a device tree binary + DTB) included in the vmlinux ELF section .appended_dtb. By default + it is empty and the DTB can be appended using binutils command + objcopy: + + objcopy --update-section .appended_dtb=<filename>.dtb vmlinux + + This is meant as a backward compatiblity convenience for those + systems with a bootloader that can't be upgraded to accommodate + the documented boot protocol using a device tree. + config MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB bool "vmlinux.bin" help diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c index 6f142ee4a086..66aac55df349 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ #include <asm/smp-ops.h> #include <asm/prom.h> +#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB +const char __section(.appended_dtb) __appended_dtb[0x100000]; +#endif /* CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB */ + struct cpuinfo_mips cpu_data[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly; EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_data); diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 07d32a4aea60..f4c23d9023be 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ SECTIONS __appended_dtb = .; /* leave space for appended DTB */ . += 0x100000; +#elif defined(CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB) + .appended_dtb : AT(ADDR(.appended_dtb) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + *(.appended_dtb) + KEEP(*(.appended_dtb)) + } #endif /* * Align to 64K in attempt to eliminate holes before the |