Patch "arm64: dts: NS2: reserve memory for Nitro firmware" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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.

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(+)

@@ -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