FT u-boot shim

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <DAD4396E-7458-471C-8150-9DDCD396BA63 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> > No. Remove them from the U-Boot tree. I was never happy to  see  this
> > stuff there.
> 
> Then why did you accept the patches for them?  I'm confused on what  

Because I  had  neither  time  nor  nerves  to  discuss  with  kernel
maintainers how this could be done. Several people asked me again and
again  to  accept  these  patches  because  they  were  vital for FDT
support, so I gave in.

> you see as the solution for how to boot an arch/powerpc kernel going  
> forward.

I strongly agree with Dan and Eugene: the kernel should not depend on
any specific version of a boot loader, and more general not  even  on
any specific boot loader at all.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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