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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Mar 6 16:12:16 CET 2015


On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 06:20:35PM +0000, Yehuda Yitschak wrote:
> Hey Tom 
> 
> In arch/arm/dts/Makfile: line 56 
> "DTC_FLAGS += -R 4 -p 0x1000"
> 
> this tell the dtc tool to add a 4K padding to the device tree blob. 
> 
> i can't figure out why this is needed.
> Its creating a 4KB penalty on the dtb file so i guess it has some justification. 

That's interesting and I don't see a corresponding thing in the kernel.
Masahiro?  This dates back to the introduction of the Makefile and
that's you in the git log, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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