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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:42:50 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To:     Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn>
Cc:     Binbin Zhou <zhoubb.aaron@gmail.com>,
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        loongarch@lists.linux.dev, Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
        Hongliang Wang <wanghongliang@loongson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] LoongArch: Allow device trees to be built into
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 05:54:51PM +0800, Binbin Zhou wrote:
> Some systems do not provide a useful device tree to the kernel at boot
> time. Let's keep a device tree table in the kernel, keyed by the dts
> filename, containing the relevant DTBs.

Support for this in other arches was added to support legacy bootloaders 
with no DT support. You should not need this for a new architecture. Fix 
the bootloader to provide a useful DT.

Rob