of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux

This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
.dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.

Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
wrap the blobs for linking.

STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib.  The
STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.

The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
to get the structure alignment GCC expects.

A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
   obj-y += foo.dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
[grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
This commit is contained in:
Dirk Brandewie
2010-12-22 11:57:26 -08:00
committed by Grant Likely
parent cfb13c5db0
commit aab94339cd
3 changed files with 49 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -200,6 +200,29 @@ quiet_cmd_gzip = GZIP $@
cmd_gzip = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | gzip -f -9 > $@) || \
(rm -f $@ ; false)
# DTC
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Generate an assembly file to wrap the output of the device tree compiler
quiet_cmd_dt_S_dtb= DTB $@
cmd_dt_S_dtb= \
( \
echo '\#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>'; \
echo '.section .dtb.init.rodata,"a"'; \
echo '.balign STRUCT_ALIGNMENT'; \
echo '.global __dtb_$(*F)_begin'; \
echo '__dtb_$(*F)_begin:'; \
echo '.incbin "$<" '; \
echo '__dtb_$(*F)_end:'; \
echo '.global __dtb_$(*F)_end'; \
echo '.balign STRUCT_ALIGNMENT'; \
) > $@
$(obj)/%.dtb.S: $(obj)/%.dtb
$(call cmd,dt_S_dtb)
quiet_cmd_dtc = DTC $@
cmd_dtc = $(objtree)/scripts/dtc/dtc -O dtb -o $@ -b 0 $(DTC_FLAGS) $<
# Bzip2
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------