On Thursday 30 August 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Now that ATAGS support is well contained, we can easily remove it from > the kernel build if so desired. It has to explicitly be disabled, and > only when DT support is selected. > > Note: disabling kernel ATAGS support does not prevent the usage of > CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT.
> ... > +config ATAGS > + bool "Support for the traditional ATAGS boot data passing" if USE_OF > + default y > + help > + This is the traditional way of passing data to the kernel at boot > + time. If you are solely relying on the flattened device tree (or > + the ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT option) then you may unselect this option > + to remove ATAGS support from your kernel binary. If unsure, > + leave this to y. That's a clever way of implementing it, I had not though of making it an optional default-y symbol. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Should we do patches to the individual platforms bsaed on this to disable the ATAG based board files when CONFIG_ATAG is disabled? Arnd _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
