On 05/08/2014 05:55 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> The problem I was raising at the ELC BoF is that today we can't just >> stop overwriting values in the non-zero case as many boards lie about >> their memory size, in non-zero ways, but no one noticed as they only >> tested with U-Boot which was performing the fixup. > > So, should we conclude are we stuck being bug-compatible forever? > > I was hoping to add this logic to the kernel by [1], but of course > this won't fly > based on the argument you highlighted (as was pointed out by Uwe). > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/7/28 Well, device tree should always win and once passed to the kernel, be correct. If you have control of the kernel but not bootloader, like Uwe says, drop the ATAG support. -- Tom -- 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
