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

Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-22T17:40:41Z

Dear Lee Jones,

In message <20121122160847.GD10986@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Ideally I'd like to keep it all as data, as it will save lots of
> text parsing code in the kernel. Surely there must be a call for
> passing data structures from the bootloader to the kernel. After
> all, that's why ATAGs were brought about wasn't it?

Look at which ATAGS exist to see what they have been invented for.
Read the previous discussions why for example pretty useful
extensions like a tag to pass a MAC address from a boot loader to the
kernel have never been accepted for mainline. But you claim that
trace data are different, and fit better?

I consider it a design flaw to do such statictics stuff in the kernel.
It does not belong there. Such functions belong to user space.

But as mentioned before, this is actually off topic here.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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