> > Ideally I'd like to keep it all as data, as it will save lots of > > text parsing code in the kernel. Surely there must be a call for > > passing data structures from the bootloader to the kernel. After > > all, that's why ATAGs were brought about wasn't it? > > Look at which ATAGS exist to see what they have been invented for. > Read the previous discussions why for example pretty useful > extensions like a tag to pass a MAC address from a boot loader to the > kernel have never been accepted for mainline. But you claim that > trace data are different, and fit better?
I don't know the history. > I consider it a design flaw to do such statictics stuff in the kernel. > It does not belong there. Such functions belong to user space. I don't agree. > But as mentioned before, this is actually off topic here. Then stop mentioning it. ;) -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
