Re: [PATCH] of: update ePAPR references to point to Devicetree Specification

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 11:17:22 EST


On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 03:23:41AM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 06/18/17 07:05, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 07:49:04PM -0700, frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The Devicetree Specification has superseded the ePAPR as the
> >> base specification for bindings. Update files in Documentation
> >> to reference the new document.
> >>
> >> Some files are not updated because there is no hypervisor chapter
> >> in the Devicetree Specification:
> >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/msi-pic.txt
> >> Documenation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
> >> Documenation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt

> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cpus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cpus.txt
> >> index f8cd2397aa04..d63ab1dec16d 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cpus.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/cpus.txt
> >> @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ Power Architecture CPU Binding
> >> Copyright 2013 Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
> >>
> >> Power Architecture CPUs in Freescale SOCs are represented in device trees as
> >> -per the definition in ePAPR.
> >> +per the definition in the Devicetree Specification.
> >
> > Are we sure we didn't remove any PPC specifics that apply here?
>
> I don't see any.
>
> Table 3.7.1 "General Properties of CPU nodes" was slightly
> re-ordered, but the same properties are listed in both documents.
>
> I don't think that the boot requirements removal impacts this
> file.
>
> Am I missing something?

No, I just wanted to make sure. So I guess there's just that one minor
thing to drop.

Rob