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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 25 November 2015 22:44:28 Pali Rohár wrote:
> 
> Arnd, my question about proper solution reminds... Proprietary 
> bootloader which cannot be replaced (e.g. it is signed or do unknown 
> magic) provides information to booted kernel via custom specific ATAGs 
> fields. How userspace could properly read those custom information from 
> bootloader?

The typical solution for nonstandard bootloaders is to have a boot wrapper
like the one from https://github.com/zonque/pxa-impedance-matcher that
translates whatever information we have at the bootloader level into
DT properties.

As I understand, the reason we are not doing that here is that we also
have proprietary user space that we can't fix to look in a different
place, i.e. the interface is between the bootloader and some user
binary, not bootloader to kernel.

	Arnd
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