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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index b41397d6430a..eaa0c3285ac9 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -832,8 +832,7 @@ address which can extend beyond that limit. This node is a bit "special". Normally, that's where open firmware puts some variable environment information, like the arguments, or - phandle pointers to nodes like the main interrupt controller, or the - default input/output devices. + the default input/output devices. This specification makes a few of these mandatory, but also defines some linux-specific properties that would be normally constructed by @@ -853,14 +852,14 @@ address which can extend beyond that limit. that the kernel tries to find out the default console and has knowledge of various types like 8250 serial ports. You may want to extend this function to add your own. - - interrupt-controller : This is one cell containing a phandle - value that matches the "linux,phandle" property of your main - interrupt controller node. May be used for interrupt routing. - Note that u-boot creates and fills in the chosen node for platforms that use it. + (Note: a practice that is now obsolete was to include a property + under /chosen called interrupt-controller which had a phandle value + that pointed to the main interrupt controller) + f) the /soc<SOCname> node This node is used to represent a system-on-a-chip (SOC) and must be |