On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> 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]>

Thanks.

> Should we do patches to the individual platforms bsaed on this to disable
> the ATAG based board files when CONFIG_ATAG is disabled?

Well... that could be a good thing to make them depend on ATAGS indeed.  
But that can be done incrementally in later patches.


Nicolas
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