On 25 June 2012 09:55, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com> wrote: > As for architectures, I can speak for Microblaze and the PPC > bootloader for virtex_ml507. The DTB will blob in regardless of > whether its an elf or not, so no is_linux switch is needed there for > my Linux elfs. There is no functional difference between linux and not > linux in those bootloaders.
Yes, it is exactly the "on architecture X we behave like this and on architecture Y we do something else" that I dislike, and this is why I'm not happy with any patch which is just trying to band-aid a situation on architecture X rather than trying to address the more general situation. -- PMM