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* [PATCH] powerpc: add table of contents to booting-without-of-txt
@ 2007-06-05 18:29 Stuart Yoder
  2007-06-07  1:58 ` David Gibson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stuart Yoder @ 2007-06-05 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: paulus; +Cc: linuxppc-dev

Add table of contents.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
---

 I think this should help make the doc more easily navigated and will help
 make the structure visible so someone editing will know where to put
 stuff.

 Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index 258a279..f36ad71 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
            Booting the Linux/ppc kernel without Open Firmware
            --------------------------------------------------
 
-
 (c) 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>,
     IBM Corp.
 (c) 2005 Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>,
@@ -9,6 +8,62 @@
 (c) 2006 MontaVista Software, Inc.
     Flash chip node definition
 
+Table of Contents
+=================
+
+  I - Introduction
+    1) Entry point for arch/powerpc
+    2) Board support
+  
+  II - The DT block format
+    1) Header
+    2) Device tree generalities
+    3) Device tree "structure" block
+    4) Device tree "strings" block
+  
+  III - Required content of the device tree
+    1) Note about cells and address representation
+    2) Note about "compatible" properties
+    3) Note about "name" properties
+    4) Note about node and property names and character set
+    5) Required nodes and properties
+      a) The root node
+      b) The /cpus node
+      c) The /cpus/* nodes
+      d) the /memory node(s)
+      e) The /chosen node
+      f) the /soc<SOCname> node
+  
+  IV - "dtc", the device tree compiler
+  
+  V - Recommendations for a bootloader
+  
+  VI - System-on-a-chip devices and nodes
+    1) Defining child nodes of an SOC
+    2) Representing devices without a current OF specification
+      a) MDIO IO device
+      c) PHY nodes
+      b) Gianfar-compatible ethernet nodes
+      d) Interrupt controllers
+      e) I2C
+      f) Freescale SOC USB controllers
+      g) Freescale SOC SEC Security Engines
+      h) Board Control and Status (BCSR)
+      i) Freescale QUICC Engine module (QE)
+      g) Flash chip nodes
+  
+  VII - Specifying interrupt information for devices
+    1) interrupts property
+    2) interrupt-parent property
+    3) OpenPIC Interrupt Controllers
+    4) ISA Interrupt Controllers
+  
+  Appendix A - Sample SOC node for MPC8540
+
+
+Revision Information
+====================
+
    May 18, 2005: Rev 0.1 - Initial draft, no chapter III yet.
 
    May 19, 2005: Rev 0.2 - Add chapter III and bits & pieces here or
-- 
1.5.0.3

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* Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add table of contents to booting-without-of-txt
  2007-06-05 18:29 [PATCH] powerpc: add table of contents to booting-without-of-txt Stuart Yoder
@ 2007-06-07  1:58 ` David Gibson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Gibson @ 2007-06-07  1:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stuart Yoder; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, paulus

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:29:14PM -0500, Stuart Yoder wrote:
> Add table of contents.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
> ---
> 
>  I think this should help make the doc more easily navigated and will help
>  make the structure visible so someone editing will know where to put
>  stuff.

I like it in theory.  Whether it will remain updated in sync with the
rest of the document remains to be seen...

Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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