From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ben-linux@fluff.org (Ben Dooks) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:34:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: abstract atags parsing In-Reply-To: References: <20100923213113.GC26295@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <4C9BE3FE.1070704@fluff.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 23/09/10 22:53, Grant Likely wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: >> 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. > > I can carry it in test-devicetree branch until you become okay with it. > >> 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.) > > I started working on ARM DT support in November/December 2009. Not > even a year yet. I don't believe you're the only one to be or have been working on it, but I've no direct references to other work and can't be bothered to go and find any.