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

From	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry
Date	2015-11-29 19:20 +0100
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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@gmail.com

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Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2015-11-22 08:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 15:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> - 2015-11-25 19:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-25 20:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> - 2015-11-25 22:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-25 22:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 22:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-25 23:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 23:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags"  entry Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 05:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 10:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> - 2015-11-26 21:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 22:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 09:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> - 2015-11-27 09:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> - 2015-11-27 10:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> - 2015-11-27 16:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-27 14:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-27 21:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-27 22:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2015-11-28 00:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-28 13:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-28 14:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-28 13:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2015-11-28 18:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags"  entry Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 22:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-29 19:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 19:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-30 00:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 01:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: boot: store ATAGs structure into DT  "/chosen/linux,atags" entry Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2015-11-30 01:20 +0100

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