Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:09:21 -0500
Matthew McClintock wrote:

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 09:38 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

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I'll throw in the caveat that I'm not 100% sure we're that stable
yet, but it certainly seems like it, at least for the overall
portion where you might really have incompatible trees.  More or
less complete (now every device is described!) dts should be
interchangable to the kernel for the custom board X is just a
little different from ref board Y issues (and now, in theory, the
Just Like A Sandpoint board, with a correct dts will boot the
'sandpoint' kernel). 

The sandpoint (as far as I know) does not have a stable DTS. So in
this case including the DTS in the kernel would reduce confusion. The
same could be said for other boards where the DTS needed to be
changed for the IRQ rework. The old DTS will no longer boot the new
kernels. I'm not sure how much longer we will run into this problem
though.

I am right about to submit dts+code working fine w/ recent IRQ stuff for 8540 and 8560,
and will make sure dts coming along.

But, I guess we finally should end up with a place in kernel tree where such a stuff should reside
further.