From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivaylo Dimitrov Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 23:12:38 +0200 Message-ID: <565775C6.8070500@gmail.com> References: <20150713131902.GH26485@atomide.com> <20151123144545.GD24147@pali> <20151125181644.GI2517@atomide.com> <17134653.86P3dFyQKK@wuerfel> <20151125210310.GT2517@atomide.com> <56568849.5080103@gmail.com> <20151126090739.GD14190@pali> <20151126203930.GW2517@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151126203930.GW2517@atomide.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Lindgren , =?UTF-8?Q?Pali_Roh=c3=a1r?= Cc: Frank Rowand , Arnd Bergmann , Pavel Machek , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Russell King - ARM Linux , Laura Abbott , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Will Deacon , Sebastian Reichel , =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=c3=a4rber?= , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 26.11.2015 22:39, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Just to explore options.. How about make a minimal device driver that > just loads the atags blob from /lib/firmware and then shows it in > /proc/atags? Of course some checking on the atags should be done by > the driver.. > What is the chance for such a driver to be accepted upstream? As IIRC the current situation is because similar driver was rejected. Might be wrong as well, it was about 2-3 years ago. Regards, Ivo