On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 06:06:17PM +0800, Vivian Wang wrote:
> (Also posted at: https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/issues/86 )
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Presently, there seems to be some confusion in the community about the
> format of unit addresses for "/cpus/cpu@*" nodes for a CPU with ID > 9, e.g.
> 
>     cpu@??? {
>         reg = <10>;
>         /* reg = <0xa>; */ /* This should be equivalent */
>     }
> 
> 
> Should this be a decimal "cpu@10", or hexadecimal "cpu@a"? I can't find
> any explicit specification.

It should be hex.  That's a general convention for unit addresses.
Before flattened trees, OF essentially never used decimal
representations of things.

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