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David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 08:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> A bit yukcy but I suppose it'll do for now ... though this shouldn't
>> be kept as a long term approach unless there's some versionning or
>> such. You also need to pull the initrd btw. 
> 
> I really don't think we should be doing it like that in the kernel
> proper. Provide a DT blob in the bootwrapper by all means, but there's
> no real need to override the device-tree like that when all we really
> need to do is refrain from crashing when there's memory listed in the
> device-tree.
> 
> If we're going to avoid hacking kexec userspace tools, we _want_ the RMO
> memory listed in the device-tree anyway. But we can fix that up for
> ourselves rather than overriding the whole device-tree, surely?
> 

Its just a short term hack.

-Geoff