[PATCH 01/52] ARM: introduce atag_offset to replace boot_params
Stephen Boyd
sboyd at codeaurora.org
Wed Jul 6 13:59:40 EDT 2011
On 07/06/2011 05:54 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
>>
>> Would it make sense to drop the atag_offset in most board files and
>> default it to 0x100 in the MACHINE_START macro itself? It's almost a
>> universal value and would cut down on hundreds of lines.
>
> Well, no more than 50 lines actually.
>
> And there are those cases where that value is not set to anything, and
> therefore I'd prefer we don't start always assuming something at 0x*100
> for them. IOW, this is meant to be functionally transparent.
Fair enough. Probably too magical anyway.
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