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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 06:03:03 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add idle power save for ppc 4xx
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:00:38 +1100
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> Josh Boyer writes:
> 
> > Actually, you probably don't want this as a property in the device
> > tree.  It doesn't describe hardware.  A Kconfig option might be
> > warranted though.
> 
> In general it is valid to have properties in the device tree that
> describe the hypervisor or the kernel's interface to it, since they
> are aspects of the platform, i.e. the virtual "hardware" that the
> kernel is running on.

Yep, we reached that conclusion already.

josh