Re: [PATCH] of: WARN on using default root node #address-cells/#size-cells

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

Hi Rob.

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> While OpenFirmware originally allowed default values of #address-cells
> and #size-cells, FDT has long required explicit values. It's been a
> warning in dtc for the root node since the beginning (2005) and for
> any parent node since 2007. Of course, not all FDT uses dtc, but that
> should be the majority by far. The various extracted OF devicetrees I
> have dating back to the 1990s (various PowerMac, OLPC, PASemi Nemo)
> all have explicit root node properties.
> 
> I have no idea what exists for Sparc, so disabling the warning for it.
> If any other platforms hit the warning, then the warning can be
> disabled for them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
> ---
> Sparc folks, If anyone can dump DTs from some Sparc systems it would be
> helpful.

For sparc the format looks much different - see:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/prtconfs.git

This is dumps from the prtconf tool found in Solaris.

Looking at for example t1000 it looks like #size-cells, #address-cells
are used properly.

Looking at the older ss20 I see no use of these.
Looking at sb100 (old sparc64 machine) I see inconsistent use.

My best guess is that sparc32 machines see little to no use of them.
sparc64 use them, but on older machines the usage is inconsistent.

	Sam