From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755403Ab1ACQTi (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:19:38 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:62276 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755230Ab1ACQTh (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:19:37 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,267,1291622400"; d="scan'208";a="369415264" Message-ID: <4D21F718.8010600@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:19:36 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Likely CC: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sodaville@linutronix.de, Rob Landley , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [sodaville] [PATCH 02/11] x86: Add device tree support References: <1290706801-7323-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1290706801-7323-3-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <1290807736.32570.143.camel@pasglop> <20101128134907.GA30784@www.tglx.de> <20101230082654.GB11721@angua.secretlab.ca> <4D21F3DB.90504@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4D21F3DB.90504@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/03/2011 08:05 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/30/2010 12:58 PM, Grant Likely wrote: >> >> Right, but in all of those cases a boot wrapper provides the same >> functionality with better flexability, such as being able to provided >> the dtb image(s) at install time instead of compile time. >> > > Assuming the boot wrapper is written correctly. I have seen a number of > cases in which it was not, and it being "already locked into firmware" > and not changeable. > > It's a nice theory. And in theory, theory and practice agree. > By the way, this is the same reason we also allow the initramfs and even the command line to be compiled in. -hpa