On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:34:23PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Good. And Arnd likes the idea too. So we might be converging at last > which is a good thing. I disagree with the idea that there is convergence. There might be convergence towards an idea, but... Here's a mail extract, from July 7th, from earlier in this very thread: Pali: > Me: > > Are the ATAGs at a fixed address on the N900? > > Yes, in board-rx51.c is: > > .atag_offset = 0x100 > > and Nokia Bootloader (proprietary) store them to that address. > > > 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? > > > > I already asked question if it is possible to read ATAGs from DT booted > kernel. And somebody (do not remember who) wrote to ML, that it is not > possible and it can be done in that uncompress code. So you're converging on an idea that has already been rejected. That's not a good thing, IMHO. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
