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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:42:38 +0100
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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> Is there some harm is having them set in the .dts?
>
> I can see 'linux,boot-cpu' may vary on a SMP, but the majority
> of .dts's are for uniproc's

The way this is handled in the OF binding, only multi-processor
systems are required to explicitly state their boot CPU (in
/chosen/cpu).  It's quite silly to require this for single
CPU systems.


Segher