This can be useful in particular in the kernel when booting on systems with FDT-emitting firmware that is out of date. Releases of kexec-tools on ppc64 prior to the end of 2014 are notable examples of such. Signed-off-by: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> [dwg: Some whitespace cleanups] Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>