Re: Excluded List for "#size-cells" warning
From: Stan Johnson <hidden>
Date: 2025-10-30 22:15:01
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- dtc_lombard.txt.xz [application/x-xz] 57736 bytes
- dtc_3400c.txt.xz [application/x-xz] 4128 bytes
From: Stan Johnson <hidden>
Date: 2025-10-30 22:15:01
Attached are the dtc output files for a PB Lombard and a PB 3400c. If you need any other information, please let me know. Thanks for looking into this. -Stan Johnson ----- On 10/29/25 11:00 AM, Stan Johnson wrote:
On 10/29/25 1:29 AM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:quoted
On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 08:17:27PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:quoted
On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM Stan Johnson [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Excluded List for "#size-cells" warning Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:00:25 -0600 From: Stan Johnson <redacted> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org CC: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>, Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] Hello, On a PowerBook G3 Pismo running the latest Debian SID, dmesg reports the warning shown below. I've also seen the warning on PowerBook Lombard and Wallstreet systems. I haven't checked PowerBook 3400c or Kanga.Can you send me a dump of the device tree on these systems: dtc -O dts /proc/device-treePlease see the attached compressed files containing dtc output for a Wallstreet (dtc_wallstreet.txt) and a Pismo (dtc_pismo.txt).quoted
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We've been fixing up these cases such as in commit 7e67ef889c9a ("powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing #size-cells on PowerBook6,7")And of course it is perfectly fine for an actual Open Firmware to *not* repeat the defaults. As the documentation (the main IEEE 1275 thing) says: "A missing “#size-cells” property signifies the default value of one." There are many other places in OF geared towards this default btw, take for example the "reg" word, that silently assumes your node's #size-cells is 1, and does completely the wrong thing if not. Flattened device trees are a fine thing, but the gratuitous ways it differs from OF, are not. Segher