Re: [PATCH 2/2] dt: Remove booting-without-of.rst

Michael Ellerman
2020-10-09T03:52:14Z

Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> writes:
> booting-without-of.rstt is an ancient document that first outlined
^
nit

> Flattened DeviceTree on PowerPC initially. The DT world has evolved a
> lot in the 15 years since and booting-without-of.rst is pretty stale.
> The name of the document itself is confusing if you don't understand the
> evolution from real 'OpenFirmware'. Most of what booting-without-of.rst
> contains is now in the DT specification (which evolved out of the
> ePAPR). The few things that weren't documented in the DT specification
> are now.
>
> All that remains is the boot entry details, so let's move these to arch
> specific documents. The exception is arm which already has the same
> details documented.
>
> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> ---
> .../devicetree/booting-without-of.rst | 1585 -----------------
> Documentation/devicetree/index.rst | 1 -
> Documentation/mips/booting.rst | 28 +
> Documentation/mips/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst | 110 ++

LGTM.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

cheers