From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pali =?utf-8?q?Roh=C3=A1r?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:19:18 +0100 Message-ID: <201511291919.18179@pali> References: <20150713131902.GH26485@atomide.com> <20151129180939.GE30871@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1764706.CuXU1jnmuQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151129180939.GE30871@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Ivaylo Dimitrov , Laura Abbott , Tony Lindgren , Sebastian Reichel , Will Deacon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , Pavel Machek , Grant Likely , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Frank Rowand , Andreas =?utf-8?q?F=C3=A4rber?= List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1764706.CuXU1jnmuQ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 29 November 2015 19:09:39 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:34:23PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Good. And Arnd likes the idea too. So we might be converging at > > last which is a good thing. >=20 > I disagree with the idea that there is convergence. There might be > convergence towards an idea, but... Here's a mail extract, from July > 7th, from earlier in this very thread: >=20 > Pali: > > Me: > > > Are the ATAGs at a fixed address on the N900? > >=20 > > Yes, in board-rx51.c is: > >=20 > > .atag_offset =3D 0x100 > >=20 > > and Nokia Bootloader (proprietary) store them to that address. > >=20 > > > Can that be handled in > > > some kind of legacy file for the N900 which calls save_atags() on > > > it, so we don't end up introducing yet more stuff that we have > > > to maintain into the distant future? If not, what about copying > > > a known working atag structure into a legacy file for the N900? > >=20 > > I already asked question if it is possible to read ATAGs from DT > > booted kernel. And somebody (do not remember who) wrote to ML, > > that it is not possible and it can be done in that uncompress > > code. >=20 > So you're converging on an idea that has already been rejected.=20 > That's not a good thing, IMHO. Or in other case show that such implementation is possible... =2D-=20 Pali Roh=C3=A1r pali.rohar@gmail.com --nextPart1764706.CuXU1jnmuQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlZbQaYACgkQi/DJPQPkQ1JX3wCgyPyTnnweVM+EU9OUYxHOZ6Zi yucAmwRwDLztII6xd2ZtuIVK9Y3c2abG =hOPN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1764706.CuXU1jnmuQ--