By default, add some padding to the DT blobs to facilitate later patching.
An example need for DTB patching is the need to modifiy the command line on platforms where ATAGS are not (or cannot) be used to pass the commandline. For example, we do not support a big-endian kernel reading ATAGS from a little-endian u-boot, so the only way to pass a command line in the DT.
Also, without ATAG support (or if u-boot was built without CONFIG_INITRD_TAG) the only way to pass an initrd is by adding an initrd= option to command line (in the DT).
Therefore, to facilitate adding to the DT command line directly in the DTB, add some padding.
Cc: Nicolas Pitre nico@linaro.org Cc: Stephen Warren swarren@wwwdotorg.org Cc: Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman khilman@linaro.org --- I kinda pulled 64 bytes out of the air here since it's enough to add some common things to the commandline like debug, earlyprink initrd=<addr>,<size>, etc., but I'm certainlly not opposed to more padding.
scripts/Makefile.lib | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib index 6a5b0decb797..d7a57c2620f3 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ $(obj)/%.dtb.S: $(obj)/%.dtb
quiet_cmd_dtc = DTC $@ cmd_dtc = $(CPP) $(dtc_cpp_flags) -x assembler-with-cpp -o $(dtc-tmp) $< ; \ - $(objtree)/scripts/dtc/dtc -O dtb -o $@ -b 0 \ + $(objtree)/scripts/dtc/dtc -O dtb -o $@ -b 0 -p 64 \ -i $(dir $<) $(DTC_FLAGS) \ -d $(depfile).dtc.tmp $(dtc-tmp) ; \ cat $(depfile).pre.tmp $(depfile).dtc.tmp > $(depfile)