From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D3BDDDFA for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:28:06 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Timur Tabi In-Reply-To: <45D29AE5.7090004@freescale.com> References: <1171409687840-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <1171411075.20192.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45D29AE5.7090004@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:27:57 +1100 Message-Id: <1171430877.20192.133.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, Stuart Yoder List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 23:15 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I think that: > > > > - The /chosen node should be present in the .dts even if empty > > Only one DTS file has it. It's been removed from every other DTS. Are > you should that instead of removing the last one, I should *add* one to > the other DTS files? Or just leave them alone for now. > > - I don't see why you are removing linux,boot-cpu from the > > documentation ! It's a fairly important property. > > No, it's a dead property. Specifying linux,boot-cpu in the DTS is > obsolete and deprecated. If you specify it, the device tree compiler > complains. The proper way to specify the device tree is with the -b > parameter to dtc. Ah indeed, my bad. We moved that to a header field didn't we ? /me grumbles about kexec... :-) Ben.