Re: Refactor booting-without-of.txt

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 09:02:09PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:

On 10/15/07, David Gibson [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:14:44AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:

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On 10/15/07, Olof Johansson [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:08:44AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:

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Adding the Linux expected device tree bindings to
booting-without-of.txt seems to be getting a little unwieldy.  Plus
with more than one arch using the device tree (powerpc, sparc &
microblaze) the device tree bindings aren't necessarily powerpc only
(the Xilinx devices certainly fall in this category).

Anyone have comments about splitting the expected device tree bindings
out of booting-without-of.txt into a separate directory?

The flat device tree is, in spite of what some people would like it to be,
not open firmware, nor is it the same as their bindings. So I think we'd
be doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to associate them together.
All it would take is a rename of the directory, unfortunately i don't
have any suggestions on better names though.

I think I need to stick with the of prefix.  All the support API in
include/linux/of_* is prefixed with "of_" already, so convention is
established.

How about Documentation/of-device-tree?

It seems a little counterintuitive to change names from "booting
*without* of" to "of *"...

Heh; true.  The *only* reason I think it should be 'of-<anything>' is
because *all* the support APIs are named that way.  I'll happily use

No, not all, just most...

And do bear in mind that a lot of those accessor functions are at
least valid both on of and flat-tree systems.

another name if I get the impression that most of us in our little
group think it should be something else.

Cheers,
g.

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