* Grant Likely [off-list ref] [110502 14:52]:

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:39:54PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:

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The cmdline is something that bootloaders typically allow to configure,
while the other ATAGs are static and should be in the .dts file.

Once the libfdt code is pulled into to manipulate the command line,
it becomes trivial to parse the rest of the atags too, so this
probably won't make much difference (unless work is done to preparse
the devicetree and provide to the zimage wrapper a direct offset to
the cmdline buffer in the dtb, but that gets hairy and I really don't
want to go down that path).

 
OK, makes sense.
  

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Adding a default command line to the .dts file instead of using
CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE also works.

But that requires carrying extra patches for something that should
be user configured.. So not so nice for distros.

Right, so this is only a stop-gap solution.  I'll add this to the list
of topics to discuss in the device tree session at Linaro at UDS next
week.

Thanks

Tony