[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/8] arm: Add boottime support for the ARM architecture

Lee Jones
2012-11-21T09:17:17Z

Hi Wolfgang,

> In message <1353422034-28107-6-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> you wrote:
> > This patch adds support for passing boot time information to
> > the Linus kernel using ATAGS when booting on ARM based devices.
>
> I implicitly mentioned this before, here it comes clear again:

Ah, this has been tried before? Sorry, I didn't know that.

> I dislike the idea of adding such infrastructure in an archittecture
> dependent way, knowing from day one that we cannot use this as is for
> other architectures, and that the mechanism being used is even going
> to go away for this architecutre, too.
>
> Please come up with a solution that works for all architectures
> instead.

So I guess Device Tree it is then.

Kind regards,
Lee

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