Re: [PATCH] MIPS: boot/compressed: Copy DTB to aligned address

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Mon Mar 08 2021 - 05:56:58 EST


On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:33:05PM +0000, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> Since 5.12-rc1, the Device Tree blob must now be properly aligned.
>
> Therefore, the decompress routine must be careful to copy the blob at
> the next aligned address after the kernel image.
>
> This commit fixes the kernel sometimes not booting with a Device Tree
> blob appended to it.
>
> Fixes: c4d5e638d6e9 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c | 8 ++++++++
> arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

applied to mips-fixes.

Thomas.

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