Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:12:29PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:35 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:01:33PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:

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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 23:00 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

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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.

I would agree that its certainly _easier_ to keep them in the src tree.
The only good argument for why its _right_--that I've seen so far--is
by Kumar (i.e., so you have a dts that you know will boot on that kernel).

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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.

Well, if you're going to keep prebuilt dtb files there, why wouldn't you
want the dts that makes that dtb to be in the same place?

Mark