[PATCH 01/52] ARM: introduce atag_offset to replace boot_params
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Thu Jul 7 11:45:33 EDT 2011
On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> The boot_params member of the mdesc structure is used to provide a
> default physical address for the ATAG list. Since this value is fixed
> at compile time and often based on ARCH_PHYS_OFFSET, it gets in the way
> of runtime PHYS_OFFSET usage.
>
> Let's introduce atag_offset which should contains only the relative
> offset from start of memory instead of an absolute value, in preparation
> to move all instance of boot_params over to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
The series looks to me. Feel free to add my Acked-by everywhere
and/or push to a branch of the arm-soc tree when you're ready.
Arnd
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