[PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> >> I just don't understand why it's okay to leave it there.
> > 
> > To make sure there is one. I suspect kernel bits might get upset if it's
> > absent.
> 
> That's not what I meant.  What I don't understand is: what's so special 
> about the 8272 that its DTS should have a 'chosen' section, but no other 
> DTS needs one?
> 
> Obviously, the kernel needs a 'chosen' section, and that's why U-Boot 
> adds one.  And since U-Boot adds one, the DTS itself doesn't need one. 
> Does the 8272 never use U-Boot?

Is that dts also for u-boot? maybe they have another bootloader? I know 
u-boot creates "chosen" itself, but not all possible bootloaders?

(as a matter of fact, the more I think about those .dts's, the more it 
seems to me like they belong to bootloaders, not in the kernel... Just 
one word - information duplication...)

Another thing, Timur, if you respin your patch, could you do it against 
the current powerpc.git? There's at least one more .dts there that also 
would need boot-cpu removed - kuroboxHD.dts.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski