From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from az33egw01.freescale.net (az33egw01.freescale.net [192.88.158.102]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E39DDDF7 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:24:57 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <45D29D24.8040908@freescale.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:24:52 -0600 From: Timur Tabi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, Stuart Yoder Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files References: <1171409687840-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <1171411075.20192.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45D29AE5.7090004@freescale.com> <20070214051924.GA12609@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20070214051924.GA12609@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , David Gibson wrote: > Um.. you may be right in this case, but "the device tree compiler > complains" is (sadly) not in general a good reason to decide > something's bad. The warning code in dtc is pretty bogus and > complains about a number of things it shouldn't while failing to > complain about some things it should. I just haven't had time to make > it much better. I agree that the DTC has problems, but my understanding is that linux,boot-cpu is just plain wrong nowadays. Besides, U-Boot overrides whatever is in the device tree, so it doesn't really matter what you say in the DTS.