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

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Thu Nov 26 2015 - 04:08:17 EST


On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:19:21 Frank Rowand wrote:
> > Or populate /proc/atags only for the ones that need it from machine
> > specific init_early?
>
> This is circling back to the first comment from Russell King where
> he suggested a legacy file for the N900 which calls save_atags():
>
> Are the ATAGs at a fixed address on the N900? Can that be handled in
> some kind of legacy file for the N900 which calls save_atags() on it, so
> we don't end up introducing yet more stuff that we have to maintain into
> the distant future? If not, what about copying a known working atag
> structure into a legacy file for the N900?
>
> It seems to me that patches 1, 2, 4, and 5 could be replaced by this
> approach.

Hi Frank, in this case I will ask my question again: It is possible to
read atags from that legacy file. And if yes how? I was not thinking
about this approach because somebody in past wrote that this is not
possible...

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