RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:35 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:01:33PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 23:00 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > 
> > > Mark A. Greer in his patch to port sandpoint to arch/powerpc put 
> > > sandpoint.dts under arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sandpoint.dts 
> > 
> > I believe in his latest patches he removed this part. The device trees
> > were not included at all and he left this point open for discussion.
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> TBH, I think its wrong to keep them in the kernel source at all--yes,
> the same argument could be made for arch/powerpc/boot but that's been
> settled.

Sorry, I have to disagree.  We're talking about device tree _source_
files here.  I believe they should be included in the kernel source.
Where that is, I don't have a particularly strong argument but they
should be included.

> 
> We already have dtc kept externally to the kernel source.  Why not
> keep a single site where all things necessary to powerpc linux are kept?
> It could house dtc, the dt attach tool, and all the dt source files.

I think hosting the dtc, the dt attach tool, and pre-built dtb files for
each platform in one spot would be a good idea.

josh