[PATCH] ARM: abstract atags parsing

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Sep 23 17:31:13 EDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:18:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> This code movement will make it cleaner and easier to introduce support 
> for device tree which is basically an alternative to atags. No functional
> changes are introduced by this patch.

I don't see any point to this churn.

DT has yet to be shown to be useful on anything but the ARM evaluation
boards, and that's one of the pre-conditions to it becoming acceptable
(which has been pending for a few years now.)



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