lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Nov]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry
Date
On Monday 30 November 2015 01:09:17 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Who is that somebody? If ever it happened to be me then objection is
> withdrawn. Otherwise that somebody should come forth and speak up
> again.
>

... do not remember ... this discussion were in more email threads and
takes more then one year... sorry but my memory is not excellent

--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-11-30 01:41    [W:0.148 / U:0.016 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site