From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:59:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20110613095931.GB10951@atomide.com> References: <1307858800-16712-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <20110612112219.GD16318@ibawizard.net> <20110612115820.GF10283@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201106121615.24059.arnd@arndb.de> <20110612145751.GA4013@ponder.secretlab.ca> <20110612151931.GK10283@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20110612155940.GM10283@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110612155940.GM10283@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Arnd Bergmann , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, Grant Likely , Petr =?utf-8?Q?=C5=A0tetiar?= , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org * Russell King - ARM Linux [110612 08:55]: > > I don't see this as a sustainable way forward. If we're going to move a > particular SoC over to DT, we need to move the entire SoC over. We can't > do this half-heartedly. Agreed. In addition to ATAGs, we need to also consider the large chunks of data in kernel that Linus originally complained about. We absolutely don't want to have the same in two places both in .dts files and in platform data for things like mux, clocks, hwmod data etc. So we need to make sure the DT append support works transparently for existing bootloaders so we can just drop the the old data instead of keeping it around. Regards, Tony