On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 05:01:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Of course it should override the device tree, I'm not arguing that. > > All I'm saying is that we don't need to special-case this or support > > both formats once the kernel is there as long as we move the information > > into appropriate DT-representation of the same data. > > You're arguing for it to be parsed by whatever fragment of assembly code > we have to place around the zImage to merge it into DT. > > And yes, it's going to have to be assembly code because we don't have a > C environment at that point which can run in a relocatable way.
The prototype patch translating ATAGs into DT defer that processing to C code. Doing that in assembly is of course madness. Nicolas _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
