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

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Jun 22 08:16:51 PDT 2017


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 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand at sony.com>
> >>
> >> The Devicetree Specification has superseded the ePAPR as the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



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