Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: dts: Add peach-pi board support

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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
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