From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, Tabi Timur-B04825 <timur@freescale.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:37:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214233736.GJ16279@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9696D7A991D0824DBA8DFAC74A9C5FA302A1B8C6@az33exm25.fsl.freescale.net>
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:09:19PM -0700, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh@kernel.crashing.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:55 PM
>
> [snip]
>
> > > Obviously, the kernel needs a 'chosen' section, and that's
> > why U-Boot
> > > adds one. And since U-Boot adds one, the DTS itself
> > doesn't need one.
> > > Does the 8272 never use U-Boot?
> >
> > I'm not talking specifically about the 8272. I think we should at it
> > back to all dts's
>
> Why do we need the chosen node in the dts files? Is it to generalize
> the dts files for use beyond u-boot?
>
> What meaningful properties should it have in the dts?
'interrupt-controller'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-13 23:34 [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files Timur Tabi
2007-02-13 23:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 5:15 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 5:19 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 5:24 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 14:40 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-02-14 5:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 5:31 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 5:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 14:03 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 20:23 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-02-14 20:32 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 20:47 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-02-14 20:51 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 20:58 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-02-14 20:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 21:02 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 21:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 21:58 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 22:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 23:37 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 21:09 ` [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-14 23:37 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-02-15 1:45 ` [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files Segher Boessenkool
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