Thread (23 messages) flat view 23 messages, 6 authors, 2007-02-15

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

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2007-02-14 22:53:53

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.
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