On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 21:17 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > Am Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:03:24 +1000 > schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>: > > > On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 10:07 +0530, Prerna Saxena wrote: > > > > .../... > > > > > I dont know what context lead to this observation. > > > However, PAPR mentions the following nomenclature guideline: > > > > > > "The value of this property shall be of the form: “PowerPC,<name>”, > > > where <name> is the name of the processor chip which may be displayed to > > > the user. <name> shall not contain underscores." > > > > This actually comes from the original Open Firmware binding for PowerPC > > processors, which PAPR inherits largely from. Thus this naming scheme > > should apply to all PowerPC processors when a device-tree is involved. > > Well, I think it should be used when an Open Firmware environment is > used. When you boot via ePAPR device tree, the name should be "cpu" > instead, according to the ePAPR specification.
Yeah well ... this is a gratuituous change in ePAPR, I don't think it matters really what the name is anyway. I'd suggest sticking to the original OF binding. Ben.
