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

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:

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>> -----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)
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>>> 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?
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>> We can change the documentation and add a little note about  
>> "obsoleted
>> practice". I don't think the kernel uses it.
>>
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> I'll submit a patch to booting-without-of.txt for this.

Need to also update dtc not to "warn" about it.

- k