From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 4/8] arm/dt: probe for platforms via the device tree
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 03:44:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110503104401.GQ2092@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110502215537.GE10097@ponder.secretlab.ca>
* 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 at UDS next
> week.
Thanks
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-03 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-29 7:15 [PATCH v5 0/8] Basic ARM devicetree support Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:15 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] arm/dt: Make __vet_atags also accept a dtb image Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:15 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] arm/dt: Allow CONFIG_OF on ARM Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:15 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] arm/dt: consolidate atags setup into setup_machine_atags Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:15 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] arm/dt: probe for platforms via the device tree Grant Likely
2011-05-02 15:15 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-05-02 15:34 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-02 16:39 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-05-02 21:55 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-03 10:44 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2011-05-02 21:51 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:15 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] arm/dt: Drop irq_create_of_mapping() from arm code Grant Likely
2011-04-30 0:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-30 6:28 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:15 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] arm/dt: Basic versatile devicetree support Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:16 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] arm/dt: Basic tegra " Grant Likely
2011-04-29 7:16 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] dt: add documentation of ARM dt boot interface Grant Likely
2011-04-30 0:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-30 6:30 ` Grant Likely
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