From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale•com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, paulus@samba•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:20:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D1F36A.4030402@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1712A11E-2F9F-441E-97E2-6FE82ED5A539@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
>
>> The 'linux,boot-cpu' property and the 'chosen' node do not belong in the
>> DTS file, because U-Boot creates these entries in the device tree when
>> it boots linux.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale•com>
>> ---
>
> Is there some harm is having them set in the .dts?
Well, I don't think a DTS should contain a property that isn't going to be used.
It might convince people that the property belongs there.
The 'chosen' section is absent from all but one DTS for the same reason.
> I can see 'linux,boot-cpu' may vary on a SMP, but the majority of .dts's
> are for uniproc's
U-Boot sets it, so whatever the DTS contains is ignored.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-13 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-13 16:47 [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files Timur Tabi
2007-02-13 17:16 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-13 17:20 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-02-13 19:29 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-15 1:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-14 0:31 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 5:18 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 5:24 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 14:05 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 23:33 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 23:47 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-15 1:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 21:26 ` purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles) Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-15 21:39 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-15 21:45 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-16 7:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-16 7:34 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-15 23:01 ` David Gibson
2007-02-16 0:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 16:58 ` purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: deleteboot-cpu " Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-02-16 17:00 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-16 7:30 ` purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu " Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-16 9:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-15 16:18 ` [PATCH] powerpc: delete boot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTS files Timur Tabi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-13 23:34 Timur Tabi
2007-02-13 23:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 5:15 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 5:19 ` David Gibson
2007-02-14 5:24 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 14:40 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-02-14 5:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 5:31 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 5:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 14:03 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 20:23 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-02-14 20:32 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 20:47 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-02-14 20:51 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 20:58 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-02-14 20:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 21:02 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 21:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 21:58 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-14 22:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-14 23:37 ` David Gibson
2007-02-15 1:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=45D1F36A.4030402@freescale.com \
--to=timur@freescale$(echo .)com \
--cc=galak@kernel$(echo .)crashing.org \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs$(echo .)org \
--cc=paulus@samba$(echo .)org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox