[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 04/20] arm: fdt: Ensure that an embedded fdt is word-aligned

[Simon Glass]

By putting the fdt blob into a distinctive area we can ensure that it appears
at the start of the data section and is word-aligned.

Note: It does not seem to be possible to get objcopy to honour its
--section-alignment flag, which would otherwise provide an easier fix
for this problem.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/u-boot.lds |    5 +++++
 dts/Makefile                  |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/u-boot.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/u-boot.lds
index 40ecf78..793e51b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/u-boot.lds
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
 	.data : {
+		/*
+		 * Sadly objcopy seems to ignore --section-alignment.
+		 * Put any embedded device tree first so it is aligned.
+		 */
+		*(.dts.data)
 		*(.data)
 	}
 
diff --git a/dts/Makefile b/dts/Makefile
index 5792afd..83547d4 100644
--- a/dts/Makefile
+++ b/dts/Makefile
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ $(obj)dt.o: $(DT_BIN)
 	\
 	cd $(dir ${DT_BIN}) && \
 	$(OBJCOPY) -I binary -O $${oformat} -B $${oarch} \
-		$(notdir ${DT_BIN}) $@
+		--prefix-sections=.dts $(notdir ${DT_BIN}) $@
 	rm $(DT_BIN)
 
 OBJS-$(CONFIG_OF_EMBED)	:= dt.o
-- 
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