[PATCH v2 6/7] Holly DTS

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 7 23:11:52 EST 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 10:40 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:21:33PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> [snip]
> > > +	compatible = "ppc750-tsi";
> > 
> > The needs to be more specific as well; "ibm,holly"
> > or something.
> 
> Or perhaps just include something more specific, compatible can have
> the general version as well.
> 
> [snip]
> > > +	chosen {
> > > +		linux,platform = <0>;
> > > +		linux,initrd-start = <0>;
> > > +		linux,initrd-end = <0>;
> > 
> > Do you need to set those zero properties?
> 
> linux,platform is obsolete and should definitely go.  With the recent
> bootloader updates the initrd properties can also go (the bootloader
> will add them correctly).  I had them in the Ebony device tree until
> very recently because until some of the recent flatdevtree.c fixes,
> the bootloader could replace the value of the properties, but it
> couldn't add new properties (or at least not properties with new
> names).

s/bootloader/bootwrapper?

josh




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