From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 29/30] PS3: Device tree source.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:25:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7282fe60cb00a9ba8756e152d277fc3@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181815870.14818.401.camel@localhost.localdomain>
>> Please review the OF spec, sections 3.4 and the "/" entry
>> of 3.5.
>>
>> I'f the flat device tree doc and/or code says differently
>> here, that is a bug.
>
> Well, I wonder if that's been superceeded by some RFC or never
> validated
> addition ...
It has been that way since before the OF standard
existed, and never has been changed.
> None of the Apple trees for example has a /name property
Apple's trees have many many problems, you know that
as well as anybody.
> and the idea of having a node with a name that doesn't participate in
> the path resolution in just wrong.
Nonsense, a pathname starting with "/" is handled
specially. This is true on Unix systems as well.
> We should check but I don't think IBM
> trees have one either.
>
> So I stand by the way I defined the flat DT -> no name in the root. But
> you are welcome to use compatible
You can use "compatible" as an alternate name, sure.
Not allowing a "name" in the root node is simply an
oversight in the flat device tree, and should be fixed
in my opinion. There is no backwwards-compatibility
problem with that.
> and model.
> "model" is a completely separate thing, so yeah.
Segher
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2007-06-12 18:42 ` [patch 01/30] Cell: Add spu shutdown method Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:43 ` [patch 02/30] PS3: Rename IPI symbols Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:43 ` [patch 03/30] PS3: Use __maybe_unused Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:43 ` [patch 04/30] PS3: Compare firmware version Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:43 ` [patch 05/30] PS3: Use ioremap_flags Geoff Levand
2007-06-13 9:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-14 1:42 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-14 2:31 ` Takao Shinohara
2007-06-14 19:03 ` [patch 05/30 v2] " Geoff Levand
2007-06-14 23:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-12 18:43 ` [patch 06/30] PS3: Fix sparse warnings Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:44 ` [patch 07/30] PS3: Add support for HDMI RGB Full Range mode Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:44 ` [patch 08/30] PS3: Move chip mask defs up Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:44 ` [patch 09/30] PS3: Use inline DBG Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:44 ` [patch 10/30] PS3: Kexec support Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:52 ` [patch 11/30] PS3: System-bus rework Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:52 ` [patch 12/30] PS3: System-bus uevent Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:52 ` [patch 13/30] PS3: System-bus modinfo attribute Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` [patch 14/30] PS3: Repository probe cleanups Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` [patch 15/30] PS3: Vuart rework Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` [patch 16/30] PS3: System manager re-work Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` [patch 17/30] PS3: Rework AV settings driver Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` [patch 18/30] PS3: Frame buffer system-bus rework Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` [patch 19/30] PS3: Device registration routines Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:53 ` [patch 20/30] PS3: Rename processor id symbols Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 21/30] PS3: Use clear_bit Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 22/30] Powerpc: Output params value in early_init_devtree Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 23/30] powerpc: Localize mmu_off Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 24/30] powerpc: Correct __secondary_hold comment Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 25/30] Powerpc: Add signed types to bootwrapper Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 26/30] Powerpc: Add u64 printf " Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 27/30] Powerpc: Fix constantness of bootwrapper arg Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 28/30] powerpc: Bootwrapper global scope kernel_entry_t Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:54 ` [patch 29/30] PS3: Device tree source Geoff Levand
2007-06-13 4:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 8:40 ` Olaf Hering
2007-06-13 9:05 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 11:24 ` Olaf Hering
2007-06-13 11:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 12:28 ` Olaf Hering
2007-06-13 13:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 16:04 ` Olaf Hering
2007-06-13 13:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-13 13:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 14:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-13 14:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 14:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-13 17:36 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-13 22:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-14 7:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 10:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-14 10:25 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-06-13 17:35 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-13 18:18 ` Olaf Hering
2007-06-13 22:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-14 7:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 14:39 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-06-14 15:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 15:53 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-06-15 8:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15 0:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 8:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-13 22:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-14 1:31 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-14 7:39 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 1:31 ` [patch 29/30 v2] " Geoff Levand
2007-06-14 7:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-14 17:05 ` Geoff Levand
2007-06-12 18:55 ` [patch 30/30] PS3: Bootwrapper support Geoff Levand
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