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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > > I don't mind creating the /proc/atags compatibility hack from the kernel
> > > for a DT based N700 kernel, as long as we limit it as much as we can
> > > to the machines that need it. Leaving a board file for the N700 in place
> > > that contains the procfs code (and not much more) seems reasonable
> > > here, as we are talking about a board specific hack and the whole point
> > > appears to be running unmodified user space.
> > >
> > > Regarding how to get the data into the kernel in the first place, my
> > > preferred choice would still be to have an intermediate bootloader
> > > such as pxa-impedance-matcher, but I won't complain if others are
> > > happy enough about putting it into the ATAGS compat code we already
> > > have, as long as it's limited to the boards we know need it.
> >
> > Assuming you have a N700 board file for special procfs code, then why
> > not getting at the atags in memory where the bootloader has put them
> > directly from that same board file? This way it'll really be limited to
> > the board we know needs it and the special exception will be contained
> > to that one file. Amongst the machine specific hooks, there is one that
> > gets invoked early during boot before those atags are overwritten.
>
> I've already suggested that.

Good. And Arnd likes the idea too. So we might be converging at last
which is a good thing.


Nicolas


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