RE: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: deleteboot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh@kernel.crashing.org]=20
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:09 PM
To: David Gibson
Cc: Yoder Stuart-B08248; Segher Boessenkool; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH]=20
powerpc: deleteboot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)
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You're right.  Question is, can we change it now.  It's out there in
the documentation, on the other hand, I don't think the kernel
actually uses it anywhere yet.  BenH, opinion?

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We can change the documentation and add a little note about "obsoleted
practice". I don't think the kernel uses it.
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I'll submit a patch to booting-without-of.txt for this.

Stuart