[U-Boot] 4K padding of ARM DT blob

Yehuda Yitschak yehuday at marvell.com
Thu Mar 5 09:02:50 CET 2015


Hello

I was wondering why the default ARM device tree blob is padded by 4K bytes

Is this required to align to some storage medium ?
Is there a configuration that allows to eliminate this padding to save space ?

Thanks

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