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On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 18:42 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> I'd suggest also to find the good arguments to convince us that this  
> series has a real added value, not just "cisco use it in its kernels  
> so it is good".

Well, IIRC, this series was endorsed by the device tree maintainers as
the preferred alternative to this:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/1565020400-25679-1-git-send-email-daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us/T/#u

The now-defunct patchwork.linux-mips.org link in that thread pointed to:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/1510796793.16864.25.camel@chimera/T/#u

When running modern kernels from ancient vendor bootloaders, it is
sometimes necessary to pick and choose bits and pieces of the info they
pass without taking it verbatim.