[PATCH] ARM: abstract atags parsing

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Sep 23 17:53:05 EDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:18:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> This code movement will make it cleaner and easier to introduce support
>> for device tree which is basically an alternative to atags. No functional
>> changes are introduced by this patch.
>
> I don't see any point to this churn.

I can carry it in test-devicetree branch until you become okay with it.

> DT has yet to be shown to be useful on anything but the ARM evaluation
> boards, and that's one of the pre-conditions to it becoming acceptable
> (which has been pending for a few years now.)

I started working on ARM DT support in November/December 2009.  Not
even a year yet.

g.


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