Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2011 03:44:01 -0700 | From | Tony Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] arm/dt: probe for platforms via the device tree |
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* Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> [110502 14:52]: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:39:54PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > The cmdline is something that bootloaders typically allow to configure, > > while the other ATAGs are static and should be in the .dts file. > > Once the libfdt code is pulled into to manipulate the command line, > it becomes trivial to parse the rest of the atags too, so this > probably won't make much difference (unless work is done to preparse > the devicetree and provide to the zimage wrapper a direct offset to > the cmdline buffer in the dtb, but that gets hairy and I really don't > want to go down that path).
OK, makes sense.
> > > Adding a default command line to the .dts file instead of using > > > CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE also works. > > > > But that requires carrying extra patches for something that should > > be user configured.. So not so nice for distros. > > Right, so this is only a stop-gap solution. I'll add this to the list > of topics to discuss in the device tree session at Linaro@UDS next > week.
Thanks
Tony
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