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3*d47a97bdSJonathan CorbetDeviceTree Booting
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6*d47a97bdSJonathan Corbet  Device-tree compatible SH bootloaders are expected to provide the physical
7*d47a97bdSJonathan Corbet  address of the device tree blob in r4. Since legacy bootloaders did not
8*d47a97bdSJonathan Corbet  guarantee any particular initial register state, kernels built to
9*d47a97bdSJonathan Corbet  inter-operate with old bootloaders must either use a builtin DTB or
10*d47a97bdSJonathan Corbet  select a legacy board option (something other than CONFIG_SH_DEVICE_TREE)
11*d47a97bdSJonathan Corbet  that does not use device tree. Support for the latter is being phased out
12*d47a97bdSJonathan Corbet  in favor of device tree.
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