[PATCH 2/5] arm: preserve ATAGS in /chosen/atags in the Device Tree

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 01:54:27PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Dear Nicolas Pitre,
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:27:38 -0400 (EDT), Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >
> > Marvell will release a DT-capable U-Boot in some time, that will
> > properly adjust the MAC addresses in the DTB before handing it over to
> > the kernel. We are currently working with Marvell to define which
> > actions the bootloader should do on the DTB before handing it over to
> > the kernel. I believe this is a sufficient proof that there is no
> > laziness from Marvell's side and that things are progressing towards a
> > full DT based boot protocol.
> 
> Hopefully the lesson on custom ATAGs has been learned and we don't
> repeat it with something custom and undocumented in DT. I don't want
> to hear "we're already using this binding in our bootloader and can't
> change it". This example doesn't apply to MAC addresses since there
> already is a defined way, but I'm sure there are other examples. That
> is what I've gotten from the OLPC folks before.

That is the standard argument given when people don't talk to us first
and _try_ to present us with a fait accompli.  They hope that we'll back
down.