From: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Subject: openwrt: arc - add OWRTDTB section
This change allows OpenWRT to patch resulting kernel binary with
external .dtb.
That allows us to re-use exactky the same vmlinux on different boards
given its ARC core configurations match (at least cache line sizes etc).
""patch-dtb" searches for ASCII "OWRTDTB:" strign and copies external
.dtb right after it, keeping the string in place.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
---
arch/arc/kernel/head.S | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arc/kernel/setup.c | 4 +++-
arch/arc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 13 +++++++++++++
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@
1:
.endm
+; Here "patch-dtb" will embed external .dtb
+; Note "patch-dtb" searches for ASCII "OWRTDTB:" string
+; and pastes .dtb right after it, hense the string precedes
+; __image_dtb symbol.
+ .section .owrt, "aw",@progbits
+ .ascii "OWRTDTB:"
+ENTRY(__image_dtb)
+ .fill 0x4000
+END(__image_dtb)
+
.section .init.text, "ax",@progbits
;----------------------------------------------------------------
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
@@ -388,6 +388,8 @@ static inline int is_kernel(unsigned lon
return 0;
}
+extern struct boot_param_header __image_dtb;
+
void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_ARC_UBOOT_SUPPORT
@@ -401,7 +403,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
#endif
{
/* No, so try the embedded one */
- machine_desc = setup_machine_fdt(__dtb_start);
+ machine_desc = setup_machine_fdt(&__image_dtb);
if (!machine_desc)
panic("Embedded DT invalid\n");
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -30,6 +30,19 @@ SECTIONS
. = CONFIG_LINUX_LINK_BASE;
+ /*
+ * In OpenWRT we want to patch built binary embedding .dtb of choice.
+ * This is implemented with "patch-dtb" utility which searches for
+ * "OWRTDTB:" string in first 16k of image and if it is found
+ * copies .dtb right after mentioned string.
+ *
+ * Note: "OWRTDTB:" won't be overwritten with .dtb, .dtb will follow it.
+ */
+ .owrt : {
+ *(.owrt)
+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+ }
+
_int_vec_base_lds = .;
.vector : {
*(.vector)