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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:16:51 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>,
        Dan Douglass <dan.douglass@....com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: update ePAPR references to point to Devicetree
 Specification

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@...il.com wrote:
> >> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...y.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 The Devicetree Specification has superseded the ePAPR as the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