purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: deleteboot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)

[Yoder Stuart-B08248]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh at kernel.crashing.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:09 PM
> To: David Gibson
> Cc: Yoder Stuart-B08248; Segher Boessenkool; linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] 
> powerpc: deleteboot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)
> 
> 
> > You're right.  Question is, can we change it now.  It's out there in
> > the documentation, on the other hand, I don't think the kernel
> > actually uses it anywhere yet.  BenH, opinion?
> 
> We can change the documentation and add a little note about "obsoleted
> practice". I don't think the kernel uses it.
> 

I'll submit a patch to booting-without-of.txt for this.

Stuart