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%3Ba=su...

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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

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From: Jon Mason jon.mason@broadcom.com Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 18:12:21 -0500 Subject: arm64: dts: NS2: reserve memory for Nitro firmware

From: Jon Mason jon.mason@broadcom.com

[ 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.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason jon.mason@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/ns2.dtsi | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/ns2.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/ns2.dtsi @@ -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 jon.mason@broadcom.com are

queue-4.9/arm64-dts-ns2-reserve-memory-for-nitro-firmware.patch