Subject: dtb size limit? was Re: Tiny dts change breaks boot on n900

From: [email-masked] (Andreas Färber)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:25:40 +0000

Am 10.11.2014 um 12:58 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> If I replace the blo[ck] below with
> 
>  a = <1>;
>  b = <2>;
>  c = <3>;
>  d = <4>;
> 
> Resulting kernel boots. Replacing it with
> 
>  a-really-long-attribute-name-hopefully-this-breaks-stuff = <1>;
>  b = <2>;
>  c = <3>;
>  d = <4>;
> 
> Breaks the boot. I'm using dtb append option. Any ideas? Nonbooting
> dtb is 68910 bytes.

Did you verify that your initrd, if any, does not overlap the end of the
kernel when loading it from the bootloader?

Andreas

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