[PATCH] ARM: /proc/atags: Export also for DT

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Tue Jan 27 13:58:17 PST 2015


On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> If there is indeed a sizable following for the device then someone 
> should figure out how to cope with upstream kernels, either through the 
> installation of some intermediate bootloader that can talk FDT directly, 
> or via a shim layer.  None of that has to be performed by nor linked 
> with the kernel binary, nor maintained in the kernel tree. And it's not 
> even that hard to do: we have precedents on other platforms with crappy 
> bootloaders where this just works.

For reference I recommend the following threads:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/10722

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg249719.html


Nicolas



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