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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index c5f9ae5dbd1a..5c7302e208ce 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1891,12 +1891,6 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
neutralized via a kernel panic.
This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above.
-config DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT
- bool "Provide old way to pass kernel parameters"
- help
- This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years.
- Some old boot loaders still use this way.
-
endmenu
menu "Boot options"
@@ -1909,6 +1903,23 @@ config USE_OF
help
Include support for flattened device tree machine descriptions.
+config ATAGS
+ bool "Support for the traditional ATAGS boot data passing" if USE_OF
+ default y
+ help
+ This is the traditional way of passing data to the kernel at boot
+ time. If you are solely relying on the flattened device tree (or
+ the ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT option) then you may unselect this option
+ to remove ATAGS support from your kernel binary. If unsure,
+ leave this to y.
+
+config DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT
+ bool "Provide old way to pass kernel parameters"
+ depends on ATAGS
+ help
+ This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years.
+ Some old boot loaders still use this way.
+
# Compressed boot loader in ROM. Yes, we really want to ask about
# TEXT and BSS so we preserve their values in the config files.
config ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT
@@ -2035,6 +2046,7 @@ config CMDLINE
choice
prompt "Kernel command line type" if CMDLINE != ""
default CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER
+ depends on ATAGS
config CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER
bool "Use bootloader kernel arguments if available"
@@ -2104,7 +2116,7 @@ config KEXEC
config ATAGS_PROC
bool "Export atags in procfs"
- depends on KEXEC
+ depends on ATAGS && KEXEC
default y
help
Should the atags used to boot the kernel be exported in an "atags"
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