On Sunday 29 November 2015 19:09:39 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > 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. Or in other case show that such implementation is possible... -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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