From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932181AbbAZUoP (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:44:15 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f173.google.com ([74.125.82.173]:51957 "EHLO mail-we0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932160AbbAZUoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:44:12 -0500 From: Pali =?utf-8?q?Roh=C3=A1r?= To: "Russell King - ARM Linux" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: /proc/atags: Export also for DT Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:44:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.13.0-44-generic; KDE/4.14.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Rob Herring , Will Deacon , Ivaylo Dimitrov , Sebastian Reichel , Pavel Machek , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Tony Lindgren References: <1403110464-29646-1-git-send-email-pali.rohar@gmail.com> <201501262016.52079@pali> <20150126203751.GK26493@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150126203751.GK26493@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1752650.yApU9X6Kkt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201501262144.09223@pali> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1752650.yApU9X6Kkt Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 26 January 2015 21:37:51 Russell King - ARM Linux=20 wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 08:16:52PM +0100, Pali Roh=C3=A1r wrote: > > This patch will cause that decompressor store full ATAG > > structure into >=20 > > DT tree ("/atags"): > How about something a little more radical. >=20 > Rather than trying to squeeze various ATAGs into DT, why don't > we add a standard ATAG to contain the DT and pass that > through into the kernel. This is IMHO how we _should_ have > done the ATAG compatibility from the start. >=20 > That means we could get rid of most of the libfdt in the > decompressor, and instead resolve the differences in the > kernel. This sounds good. Now when I patched decompressor myself with=20 Revision property support, I wanted to ask same question: Why to=20 convert some part from ATAGs to DT instead to pass both ATAGs and=20 DT to kernel? =2D-=20 Pali Roh=C3=A1r pali.rohar@gmail.com --nextPart1752650.yApU9X6Kkt 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) iEYEABECAAYFAlTGpxkACgkQi/DJPQPkQ1LeMgCgvVcDi8yWo0q6eOaExsVRrzYC SAwAoJ33BWBshXvfiTOhVMyq6wMKfWCN =8oTz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1752650.yApU9X6Kkt--