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In cases where a device tree is not provided (ie ACPI based system), an empty fdt is generated by efistub. #address-cells and #size-cells are not set in the empty fdt, so they default to 1 (4 byte wide). This can be an issue on 64-bit systems where values representing addresses, etc may be 8 bytes wide as the default value does not align with the general requirements for an empty DTB, and is fragile when passed to other agents as extra care is required to read the entire width of a value. This issue is observed on Qualcomm Technologies QDF24XX platforms when kexec-tools inserts 64-bit addresses into the "linux,elfcorehdr" and "linux,usable-memory-range" properties of the fdt. When the values are later consumed, they are truncated to 32-bit. Setting #address-cells and #size-cells to 2 at creation of the empty fdt resolves the observed issue, and makes the fdt less fragile. Signed-off-by: Sameer Goel <sgoel@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.