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Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:11:27 +0000
From:   "John Thomson" <git@johnthomson.fastmail.com.au>
To:     "Chuanhong Guo" <gch981213@gmail.com>, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: zboot: put appended dtb into a section
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, at 12:29, Chuanhong Guo wrote:
> This will make a separated section for dtb appear in ELF, and we can
> then use objcopy to patch a dtb into vmlinuz when RAW_APPENDED_DTB
> is set in kernel config.

Thank you Chuanhong Guo, this worked for me.

I have successfully network boot tested this change on ath79 hardware:
- kernel vmlinuz.bin
  then appended DTB, and packed into a uImage (out of kernel tree)
- kernel vmlinuz
  then updated ELF DTB appended_dtb section, and ELF booted

Cheers,
-- 
  John Thomson