[PATCH 2/2] dt: Remove booting-without-of.rst
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Oct 9 14:51:51 AEDT 2020
Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> writes:
> booting-without-of.rstt is an ancient document that first outlined
^
nit
> Flattened DeviceTree on PowerPC initially. The DT world has evolved a
> lot in the 15 years since and booting-without-of.rst is pretty stale.
> The name of the document itself is confusing if you don't understand the
> evolution from real 'OpenFirmware'. Most of what booting-without-of.rst
> contains is now in the DT specification (which evolved out of the
> ePAPR). The few things that weren't documented in the DT specification
> are now.
>
> All that remains is the boot entry details, so let's move these to arch
> specific documents. The exception is arm which already has the same
> details documented.
>
> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend at alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato at users.sourceforge.jp>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at libc.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> Cc: x86 at kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-mips at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-doc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-sh at vger.kernel.org
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> ---
> .../devicetree/booting-without-of.rst | 1585 -----------------
> Documentation/devicetree/index.rst | 1 -
> Documentation/mips/booting.rst | 28 +
> Documentation/mips/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst | 110 ++
LGTM.
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
cheers
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