Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] of: change overlay apply input data from unflattened to FDT

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Apr 25 2018 - 15:53:53 EST


Hi Jan,

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote:
> What other pointers are we talking about?

There's also the issue that some data has been allocated using kmalloc(),
while others hasn't. The "other" pointers point to e.g. early bootmem or
memblock.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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