Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:53:42 +1100

> Of course, the real solution to this problem is to fix U-Boot. 

Yup :-)

>  However, there 
> isn't any signed up to do that, and even if someone posted a patch right now, 
> there's no telling when it will get applied.  And even if it got applied today, 
> all current U-Boot installations would be broken.  Many of these systems will 
> never be updated.

But their .dts neither so it doesn't matter does it ?

> Therefore, I would say that having a 'chosen' node in the DTS is actually a 
> *bad* thing, on systems that use U-Boot.

Too bad for them..

> Another work-around would be to update the compiler to delete the chosen node 
> when it builds the DTB.  That's not a bad idea, I think, but until that feature 
> is implemented, the DTS files should not have a 'chosen' node.

Ben.