[PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage

[David Brown]

On Sun, Jun 12 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> It is not pointless.  Never it was in the cards to convert old platforms 
> first.  The most problematic platforms responsible for the high volume 
> of changes that has gone in mainline lately are the modern ones, not PXA 
> based ones.  So DT is going to be most effective for the new stuff to 
> come.  And realistically that's where we might get developers attention, 
> not with those platforms being end-of-lived by their manufacturers.

New stuff doesn't necessarily mean new boot loaders.  I don't have a lot
of control over the bootloaders on MSM.  We can probably move away from
ATAGS, but only after every kernel that could possibly boot on that
target will work with DT.  I don't see that happening for at least a
year.

David

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