[PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 15 09:53:42 EST 2007
> Of course, the real solution to this problem is to fix U-Boot.
Yup :-)
> However, there
> isn't any signed up to do that, and even if someone posted a patch right now,
> there's no telling when it will get applied. And even if it got applied today,
> all current U-Boot installations would be broken. Many of these systems will
> never be updated.
But their .dts neither so it doesn't matter does it ?
> Therefore, I would say that having a 'chosen' node in the DTS is actually a
> *bad* thing, on systems that use U-Boot.
Too bad for them..
> Another work-around would be to update the compiler to delete the chosen node
> when it builds the DTB. That's not a bad idea, I think, but until that feature
> is implemented, the DTS files should not have a 'chosen' node.
Ben.
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