[PATCH 1/2] Kernel: Move all technical descriptons of the DeviceTree Complier

[Yoder Stuart-B08248]

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> From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+b08248=freescale.com at ozlabs.org 
> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+b08248=freescale.com at ozlabs.org] 
> On Behalf Of Paul Mackerras
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:42 PM
> To: Loeliger Jon-LOELIGER
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org; Jon Loeliger
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel: Move all technical 
> descriptons of the DeviceTree Complier
> 
> Jon Loeliger writes:
> 
> > and its formats, command lines, descriptions, etc,
> > over to the Device Tree Compiler repositories now.
> 
> Hrm, section II (DT block format) is a description of a kernel
> interface, and I think it should stay.  After all, there's nothing
> that says that you have to use dtc to generate the device tree blob,
> so there is no reason for the dtc source to be the only place where
> the format is specified.
> 
> I have no problem with that section being copied over to the dtc
> source.

I think creating copies is going to cause problems as now there will
be two document to be kept in sync.

What's wrong with simply putting a pointer/link in b-w-o.txt to the
DTC source repository and stating the the Linux kernel implements 
version x.y of the DTC binary blob standard.

After all, many standards may be used by the kernel (e.g. ELF) without
the
standard document itself being kept/mainatined in the kernel source
tree.

The DTB format down the road may be used by hypervisors (e.g. Xen) and
OSes other than Linux, and thus it makes to keep it independent of the
kernel.

Stuart