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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm: add device tree support
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>, Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 09:29:58PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 29 January 2012 18:48, Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:
> > Am 29.01.2012 17:01, schrieb Grant Likely:
> >> Okay, well at least let's start with this.  Here is an updated version of the
> >> patch that doesn't touch the board code.  It makes the -dtb option available
> >> to all ARM platforms.
> >>
> >> Even if dtb is not the primary structure, we absolutely need this option.
> >
> > Well, the option itself is what has been the most controversial here.
> > Yours is at least the third attempt, so far we've seen discussed -dtb,
> > -kern-dtb, -kernel-dtb, -kernel dtb=, etc.
> 
> FWIW, my vote is for '-dtb' because it parallels the existing -initrd
> and -append. (Or -devicetree if we think -dtb is too cryptic; but anyway
> not something with 'kernel' in it.)

That was my reasoning too.  I'm not stuck on any particular flag though as
long as the feature gets merged.  :-)

g.