Dear =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20Bie=C3=9Fmann?=,
In message <1302686741-11090-1-git-send-email-biessm...@corscience.de> you
wrote:
> This patch adds a new ATAG_BORADINFO to U-Boot. This tag is intended to hand
> over the bd->bi_board_number to the linux kernel for early stage board
> information like a board revision or other kind of board specific decisions
> necessary before the linux peripherial drivers are up.
Is this ATAG_BOARDINFO already supported by the ARM Linux kernel? I
cannot find it there, nor can I find any postings referencing it on
linux-arm-kernel
I think it's a fundamentally wrong approach to take, like the
MACH-ID's have been right from day one. By now we should have learned
that lesson and not repeat it again.
ARM Linux is in the process of being converted to using the Device
Tree for description of hardware specifics, so this is the way to go
for new things.
>From my point of view, I would like to reject this patch. If you
however manage to get this accepted for mainline Linux, then maybe I
reconsider.
Sorry.
Wolfgang Denk
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