Re: [PATCH] ARM: zImage: Allow DTB command line concatenation with ATAG_CMDLINE

From: Richard Genoud
Date: Tue Jun 26 2012 - 13:34:30 EST


2012/6/21 Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Richard Genoud wrote:
>
>> This patch allows the ATAG_CMDLINE provided by the bootloader to be
>> concatenated to the bootargs property of the device tree.
>>
>> This is useful to merge static values defined in the device tree with the
>> boot loader's (possibly) more dynamic values, such as startup reasons and more.
>>
>> The bootloader should use the device tree to pass those values to the kernel,
>> but that's not always simple (old bootloader or very small one).
>>
>> The behaviour is the same as the one introduced by Victor Boivie in
>> 4394c1244249198c6b85093d46935b761b36ae05 by extending the CONFIG_CMDLINE.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>

As it has been acked by Nicolas, I sent it to the Russell's patch subsystem :

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=7437/1

Richard.
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