From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:54:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171619678.5644.69.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9415c89211d2197807813b8311f3ebb1@kernel.crashing.org>
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 08:30 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > If the kernel needs a convenient place to keep a phandle to the
> > top level interrupt controller,
>
> Well that's the first point: the kernel doesn't need this
> at all, it can derive this from the rest of the tree easy
> enough.
Not that easy. I beleive it's better to have it expressed explicitely.
> > how about just under root?
>
> CHRP does this (in an extra-plus nasty way).
>
> > (Or, we could make up a new node)
>
> Duplicate node? No way. You can be flexible with adding
> extra properties, but every node should represent a (pseudo-)
> device, and every device in the system should be represented
> by exactly one node.
>
> Or you could make the convention that /aliases/interrupt-controller
> points to the root interrupt controller, if you really
> think you want this.
That too.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-13 16:47 [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files Timur Tabi
2007-02-13 17:16 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-13 17:20 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-13 19:29 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-15 1:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 0:31 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 5:18 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 5:24 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 14:05 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 23:33 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 23:47 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-15 1:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 21:26 ` purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles) Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 21:39 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-15 21:45 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-16 7:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-16 7:34 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 23:01 ` David Gibson
2007-02-16 0:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 16:58 ` purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: deleteboot-cpu " Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-16 17:00 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-16 7:30 ` purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu " Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-16 9:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-02-15 16:18 ` [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files Timur Tabi
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