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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1501271644570.1322@knanqh.ubzr>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:58:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...ian.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: /proc/atags: Export also for DT

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> If there is indeed a sizable following for the device then someone 
> should figure out how to cope with upstream kernels, either through the 
> installation of some intermediate bootloader that can talk FDT directly, 
> or via a shim layer.  None of that has to be performed by nor linked 
> with the kernel binary, nor maintained in the kernel tree. And it's not 
> even that hard to do: we have precedents on other platforms with crappy 
> bootloaders where this just works.

For reference I recommend the following threads:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/10722

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg249719.html


Nicolas
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