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Remove references to the linux,platform property from
booting-without-of.txt since it is obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Stuart Yoder authored and Paul Mackerras committed Feb 16, 2007
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o chosen
|- name = "chosen"
|- bootargs = "root=/dev/sda2"
|- linux,platform = <00000600>
|- linux,phandle = <4>

This tree is almost a minimal tree. It pretty much contains the
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that typically get driven by the same platform code in the
kernel, you would use a different "model" property but put a
value in "compatible". The kernel doesn't directly use that
value (see /chosen/linux,platform for how the kernel chooses a
platform type) but it is generally useful.
value but it is generally useful.

The root node is also generally where you add additional properties
specific to your board like the serial number if any, that sort of
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the prom_init() trampoline when booting with an OF client interface,
but that you have to provide yourself when using the flattened format.

Required properties:

- linux,platform : This is your platform number as assigned by the
architecture maintainers

Recommended properties:

- bootargs : This zero-terminated string is passed as the kernel
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