On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:25:48PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> It's not what we do with flattened device trees blobs though. In the
>> flattened tree we're not using a /chosen/stdout property, just the
>> linux,stdout-path one.
>>
>> The question that remains is; should there be? Should the dt blobs
>> use /chosen/stdout also? (I'm not familiar enough with real OF to
>> know the answer. I'm assuming that an instance value is not the same
>> as a phandle).
>
> ihandles and phandles are not the same thing in OF. Since in the
> "flat world" we cannot have instances, we should use phandles instead
> of ihandles for the things in /chosen. I thought we agreed on that
> already, perhaps I am wrong?
Not that I recall. In general we've been avoiding using anything that
traditionally contains an ihandle; hence the direct use of
linux,stdout-path when using a flat tree.
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