On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

If there is indeed a sizable following for the device then someone 
should figure out how to cope with upstream kernels, either through the 
installation of some intermediate bootloader that can talk FDT directly, 
or via a shim layer.  None of that has to be performed by nor linked 
with the kernel binary, nor maintained in the kernel tree. And it's not 
even that hard to do: we have precedents on other platforms with crappy 
bootloaders where this just works.

For reference I recommend the following threads:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/10722

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg249719.html


Nicolas