[PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Nov 29 10:09:39 PST 2015
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:34:23PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Good. And Arnd likes the idea too. So we might be converging at last
> which is a good thing.
I disagree with the idea that there is convergence. There might be
convergence towards an idea, but... Here's a mail extract, from July
7th, from earlier in this very thread:
Pali:
> Me:
> > Are the ATAGs at a fixed address on the N900?
>
> Yes, in board-rx51.c is:
>
> .atag_offset = 0x100
>
> and Nokia Bootloader (proprietary) store them to that address.
>
> > Can that be handled in
> > some kind of legacy file for the N900 which calls save_atags() on it, so
> > we don't end up introducing yet more stuff that we have to maintain into
> > the distant future? If not, what about copying a known working atag
> > structure into a legacy file for the N900?
> >
>
> I already asked question if it is possible to read ATAGs from DT booted
> kernel. And somebody (do not remember who) wrote to ML, that it is not
> possible and it can be done in that uncompress code.
So you're converging on an idea that has already been rejected. That's
not a good thing, IMHO.
--
FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up
according to speedtest.net.
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list