From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:20:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/06] ARM: shmobile: Introduce SHMOBILE_FIXUP() helper Message-Id: <20130605192019.GG18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> List-Id: References: <20130605073410.15758.37563.sendpatchset@w520> <20130605073418.15758.93704.sendpatchset@w520> In-Reply-To: <20130605073418.15758.93704.sendpatchset@w520> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:34:18PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > From: Magnus Damm > > Introduce SHMOBILE_FIXUP() as a helper function to > allow boards to specify their memory base and size. No. I really don't like this idea (we've had people doing this in the past and I went around removing all that crap, and adding command line options into the defconfig files for those boards.) I also fail to understand why in 2013, some 11 years after ATAG stuff was created, people _still_ can't get pass correct information into the kernel. It's exactly this kind of issue which makes me believe that stuff like ACPI, UEFI and DT are doomed to fail on ARM because this kind of problem constantly crops up time and time again. People have seem to have this total inability to get the pre-kernel environment right.