[PATCH v2 6/7] Holly DTS
David Gibson
dwg at au1.ibm.com
Tue May 8 10:06:15 EST 2007
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:11:52AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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 linux,platform is obsolete and should definitely go.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?
Yes.
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