[PATCH 0/3] Synchronize DTC to 1.7.2
Marek Vasut
marek.vasut at mailbox.org
Tue Dec 2 19:35:27 CET 2025
On 12/2/25 7:06 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
Hello Tom,
>> But the question now is, how should we handle this ? These unaligned access
>> functions are there for a reason.
>
> The historical and short version of why they are there is that a
> platform was passing the kernel a misaligned device tree and the
> assumption was that it was intentional and not a bug, and so dtc put a
> bunch of effort in to working around that. After discussion (in 2019 or
> so) the conclusion from dtc was that they still wanted to keep these
> changes, despite it being a bug that a misaligned tree was passed. I did
> not further press the issue further. So doing a revert, again, is what
> we need to do.
All right, let me wrap this into V2 and send V2 once CI passes.
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Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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