On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> booting-without-of.rstt is an ancient document that first outlined
> Flattened DeviceTree on PowerPC initially. The DT world has evolved a
> lot in the 15 years since and booting-without-of.rst is pretty stale.
> The name of the document itself is confusing if you don't understand the
> evolution from real 'OpenFirmware'. Most of what booting-without-of.rst
> contains is now in the DT specification (which evolved out of the
> ePAPR). The few things that weren't documented in the DT specification
> are now.
>
> All that remains is the boot entry details, so let's move these to arch
> specific documents. The exception is arm which already has the same
> details documented.
>
> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-sh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../devicetree/booting-without-of.rst | 1585 -----------------
> Documentation/devicetree/index.rst | 1 -
> Documentation/mips/booting.rst | 28 +
> Documentation/mips/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst | 110 ++
> Documentation/powerpc/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/sh/booting.rst | 12 +
> Documentation/sh/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/x86/booting-dt.rst | 21 +
> Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 +
For x86:
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Thx.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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