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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu
	and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:34:03 +0100
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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> I want to reiterate something Paul mentioned, any similarity that the 
> device tree has to 1275 is strictly coincidental.

I'm sure you know it is not coincidental.

Now you can of course do things in a different way if
you really feel the need to, but please do it in a
non-overlapping way then.  So, don't reuse /chosen
for something else than what it is meant for in OF,
etc.


Segher