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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2013-05-07 13:03:42 +0200
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2013-05-07 13:03:42 +0200
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parentof/base: release the node correctly in of_parse_phandle_with_args() (diff)
parentDocumentation/devicetree: make semantic of initrd-end more explicit (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-next' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux into HEAD
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@@ -191,9 +191,11 @@ Linux it will look something like this:
};
The bootargs property contains the kernel arguments, and the initrd-*
-properties define the address and size of an initrd blob. The
-chosen node may also optionally contain an arbitrary number of
-additional properties for platform-specific configuration data.
+properties define the address and size of an initrd blob. Note that
+initrd-end is the first address after the initrd image, so this doesn't
+match the usual semantic of struct resource. The chosen node may also
+optionally contain an arbitrary number of additional properties for
+platform-specific configuration data.
During early boot, the architecture setup code calls of_scan_flat_dt()
several times with different helper callbacks to parse device tree