Patch "arm64: dts: NS2: reserve memory for Nitro firmware" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: dts: NS2: reserve memory for Nitro firmware
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm64-dts-ns2-reserve-memory-for-nitro-firmware.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017
From: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 18:12:21 -0500
Subject: arm64: dts: NS2: reserve memory for Nitro firmware
From: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 0cc878d678444392ca2a31350f89f489593ef5bb ]
Nitro firmware is loaded into memory by the bootloader at a specific location. Set this memory range aside to prevent the kernel from using it.
--- arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/ns2.dtsi | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/ns2.dtsi +2 -0
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ * OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */ +/memreserve/ 0x81000000 0x00200000; + #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h> #include <dt-bindings/clock/bcm-ns2.h>
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.9/arm64-dts-ns2-reserve-memory-for-nitro-firmware.patch