linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 15/16] ARM: LPAE: add support for ATAG

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1111081832290.3307@xanadu.home>
Date:	Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:38:12 -0500 (EST)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 15/16] ARM: LPAE: add support for ATAG_MEM64

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> 
> LPAE provides support for memory banks with physical addresses of up
> to 40 bits.
> 
> This patch adds a new atag, ATAG_MEM64, so that the Kernel can be
> informed about memory that exists above the 4GB boundary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

NAK.  Any LPAE capable platform to come is, by definition, a new 
platform.  It therefore should be using DT upfront.


Nicolas
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