Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Wed Nov 25 2015 - 13:17:09 EST


* Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> [151123 06:46]:
> On Sunday 22 November 2015 07:51:46 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Wed 2015-11-11 17:10:46, Frank Rowand wrote:
> > > Adding devicetree list.
> > >
> > > Thread starts at
> > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/354459.html
> > >
> > > On 11/5/2015 8:17 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > > * Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> [151105 03:41]:
> > > >> On Tuesday 13 October 2015 16:37:46 Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > > >>> On Monday 12 October 2015 13:45:09 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > >>>> * Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> [151012 13:29]:
> > > >>>>> On Monday 12 October 2015 22:16:40 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Pali, any news on posting an updated series with the comments
> > > >>>>>> addressed in this thread? It seems that we all pretty much agree
> > > >>>>>> what needs to be done.
> > >
> > > I'm not real happy with the concept of patches 4 and 5 in this series.
> > > My concern is that those two patches are using the FDT as a transport
> > > mechanism for a binary blob (the atags object).
> >
> > Umm. Ok. Do you have alternative proposal that works for everyone?
> >
> > I mean. This discussion was going for quite a long time, and it would
> > be nice to have some solution... patch proposal... something.
> > Pavel
>
> Yes, discussion is going for a long time! So should I spend time for
> adding documentation to my solution (this is last one thing which is
> missing)? Or my solution is wrong and somebody else will propose new?
> I do not want to spend time on something which will be rejected and
> discarded.

At least I don't have better solutions in mind.

Regards,

Tony
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