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    [POWERPC] Cleanup zImage handling of kernel entry with flat device tree · 35af89eb
    David Gibson authored
    This makes 2 changes to clean up the flat device tree handling
    logic in the zImage wrapper.
    
    First, there were two callbacks from the dt_ops structure used for
    producing a final flat tree to pass to the kerne: dt_ops.ft_pack()
    which packed the flat tree (possibly a no-op) and dt_ops.ft_addr()
    which retreived the address of the final blob.  Since they were only
    ever called together, this patch combines the two into a single new
    callback, dt_ops.finalize().  This new callback does whatever
    platform-dependent things are necessary to produce a final flat device
    tree blob, and returns the blob's addres.
    
    Second, the current logic calls the kernel with a flat device tree if
    one is build into the zImage wrapper, otherwise it boots the kernel
    with a PROM pointer, expecting the kernel to copy the OF device tree
    itself.  This approach precludes the possibility of the platform
    wrapper code building a flat device tree from whatever
    platform-specific information firmware provides.  Thus, this patch
    takes the more sensible approach of invoking the kernel with a flat
    tree if the dt_ops.finalize callback provides one (by whatever means).
    
    So, the dt_ops.finalize callback can be NULL, or can be a function
    which returns NULL.  In either case, the zImage wrapper logic assumes
    that this is a platform with OF and invokes the kernel accordingly.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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