RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Aug 3 05:03:02 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:49 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:21:37PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On 8/2/06, Mark A. Greer <mgreer at mvista.com> wrote:
> > >On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:20:52PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > >> I have to second that opinion.  The device tree is absolutely integral
> > >> with the rest of the code/drivers needed to support a board.  I say
> > >> there are stronger arguments for keeping the dts files in the kernel
> > >> source than there are for the boot wrapper.
> > >
> > >Well, the dts is no good to you without dtc so do we put dtc in the
> > >kernel source tree too?
> > 
> > I don't know; should we include gcc also?
> > 
> > :p
> 
> Yep, my point.
> 
> I don't really have a problem with keeping known working dts files in
> arch/powerpc/boot/dts.  Perhaps a 1-1 match with files in
> arch/powerpc/configs?

I like that idea very much.  Actually that's what I thought were were
talking about in the first place.

> 
> It would still be nice to have the dtc source, attach tool source, and,
> if useful, a more exhaustive collection of dts files in one place.

I also think that would be useful.

josh




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