Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 18:17:31 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
        Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
        Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data
Message-ID: <20161126171730.GA16318@amd> (sfid-20161126_181755_106598_FA4C5936)
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On Thu 2016-11-24 20:46:01, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 04:20:45PM +0100, Pali Roh=E1r wrote:
> > Proprietary, signed and closed bootloader NOLO does not support DT. So
> > for booting you need to append DTS file to kernel image.
> >=20
> > U-Boot is optional and can be used as intermediate bootloader between
> > NOLO and kernel. But still it has problems with reading from nand, so
> > cannot read NVS data nor MAC address.
>=20
> You could use kexec to pass the fixed DT.

Yeah. You could also strap desktop PC to a USB GPRS card, and call it
phone. You could also make a pig fly.

But because you could does not mean you should. No, sorry, kexec is
not acceptable. Too hard to set up, slows boot too much.

									Pavel
--=20
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