[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/8] arm: Add boottime support for the ARM architecture

[Lee Jones]

> > 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. ;)

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Lee Jones
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