Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:22:55PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:22 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:

quoted

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?

One option is the *just* include the working tested DTB files in the
kernel source. That way there is a method to boot the boards. If you end
user wants to work with a different DTB they can go download the DTS
from another source (or optionally derive the DTS from the DTB) and make
changes.

It probably would be handier to have the dtb there but its a source
tree, so let's keep source there.

It'll just be a fact of life for a non-devtree fw platform user that
they need to find and use dtc and an attach tool to stick the dtb
onto the zImage.

That way we do not have to include 'dtc' in the kernel, and we still

I don't think anyone was actually serious about including dtc in the kernel.

have a valid DTB for every board included in the kernel. Also, there is
no reason to include both the DTB and DTS in the kernel considering they
can be easily derived from one another using 'dtc'

Mark