[PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:52:17AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 05:38:23PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:21:31AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > What if your platform doesn't use uboot?
> > > 
> > > Add dtb parsing support with the help from libfdt, I guess.  It is
> > > some amount of work, but it's not a rewrite of bootloader, IMHO.
> > 
> > I guess you're suggesting that this wrapper uses libfdt to merge
> > the ATAGs with the DT info?
> > 
> No, ATAGs does not play at all in this case.  For u-boot example
> again, if it boots a dt kernel, dtb will be parsed to get cmdline
> node overwritten as bootargs env value, and then it boots the dt
> kernel with this updated dtb.

You've missed my point entirely.  What you're saying is that we have to
re-build and replace the boot loader in order to pass a command line into
a kernel using the DT wrapper.

I'm saying that you shouldn't have to, and the kernel should accept the
memory size and command line from the ATAGs _in addition_ to the
appended DT blob, and the ATAGs in that case should take precidence.