fitImage align 8-byte for ARM64

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Matthias Schoepfer wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have had trouble booting a fitImage packed kernel for dragonboard410c,
> which is an ARM64 platform. After days and days of debugging, I found that
> the fdt is 4-byte aligned. But within the linux kernel,
> Documentation/arm64/booting.txt says, fdt must be 8 byte aligned.
> 
> If I change the alignment by means of fdt_high, the Kernel boots, otherwise,
> it hangs.
> 
> Is there an option to align the fitImage to 8-byte boundaries, and if not,
> is it feasible to submit a patch or will this never have a chance to get
> merged?!

That's interesting.  It sounds like you need to look at
boot_relocate_fdt() perhaps?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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