linux/Documentation/kbuild
Dirk Brandewie aab94339cd of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux
This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
.dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.

Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
wrap the blobs for linking.

STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib.  The
STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.

The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
to get the structure alignment GCC expects.

A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
   obj-y += foo.dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
[grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-12-23 14:43:00 -07:00
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00-INDEX kbuild: document environment variables 2009-01-02 20:43:25 +01:00
kbuild.txt Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2010-08-05 14:10:07 -07:00
kconfig-language.txt kconfig: implement the `mainmenu' directive 2010-09-19 18:19:39 -04:00
kconfig.txt Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into kbuild/kconfig 2010-08-04 14:05:07 +02:00
makefiles.txt of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux 2010-12-23 14:43:00 -07:00
modules.txt Documentation/kbuild: modules.txt cleanup 2010-10-05 18:44:39 +02:00