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Subject: RE: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: deleteboot-cpu
	and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:58:10 -0700
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From: "Yoder Stuart-B08248" <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
To: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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=20

> -----Original Message-----
> 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)
>=20
>=20
> > 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?
>=20
> We can change the documentation and add a little note about "obsoleted
> practice". I don't think the kernel uses it.
>=20

I'll submit a patch to booting-without-of.txt for this.

Stuart