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LoongArch does not use FDT or DT natively [yet], and the only reason it
currently uses it is so that it can reuse the existing EFI stub code.

Overloading the DT with data passed between the EFI stub and the core
kernel has been a source of problems: there is the overlap between
information provided by EFI which DT can also provide (initrd base/size,
command line, memory descriptions), requiring us to reason about which
is which and what to prioritize. It has also resulted in ABI leaks,
i.e., internal ABI being promoted to external ABI inadvertently because
the bootloader can set the EFI stub's DT properties as well (e.g.,
"kaslr-seed"). This has become especially problematic with boot
environments that want to pretend that EFI boot is being done (to access
ACPI and SMBIOS tables, for instance) but have no ability to execute the
EFI stub, and so the environment that the EFI stub creates is emulated
[poorly, in some cases].

Another downside of trea...