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

Guennadi Liakhovetski g.liakhovetski at gmx.de
Thu Feb 15 07:47:25 EST 2007


On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> 
> > (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...)
> 
> Well, that's a completely separate issue altogether.

that's why I put it in brackets:-)

> I believe that they are 
> kept with the kernel as a convenience, so that we all have more control over 
> their contents.

yeah... I read a __part__ of those lengthy discussions... Not willing to 
re-start them here, just couldn't help...

> > 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.
> 
> My patch already removes linux,boot-cpu from kuroboxHD.dts:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/kuroboxHG.dts 

"HD" and "HG" are not the same - it's a new file in git now...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski



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