linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: /proc/atags: Export also for DT

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Message-ID: <20150127231007.GA27641@amd>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:10:07 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	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

Hi!

> > > Useful when properly designed and generic enough to be shared.
> > > 
> > > I'd suggest a DT property be proposed for that purpose if it doesn't 
> > > already exist.  That at least has a chance to be generically useful.
> > 
> > What this means is that we have to further augment the atags-to-dt code
> > in the decompressor with the platform specific ATAGs to parse this
> > information and merge it into the appended DT before passing the
> > resulting DT blob to the kernel.
> 
> That would be only 2 new lines of code in the best case.

Yes, instead of 2 new lines of code, let people write, debug, and
flash 1000 lines shim. Completely makes sense.
									Pavel
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