Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:56:45AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:18 +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 15:32 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:

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Folks,

Where should we place the sources for the OF Flat Device
Tree source files?  They used to be in U-Boot, but that
isn't happening any more.

Why ? While having device-tree's in zImages is good to handle firmwares
that can't pass them, I still think that the proper thing to do is to
have the firmware provide the DT to the kernel. Did Denk decide once for
all against having DTs passed by uboot at all ? In which case, it's
probably time to consider a fork...

We're only talking about the _source_ files.  The .dts files.  Not the
binary trees themselves.

The basic summary is that having a .dts in the kernel for every
defconfig would be good.  (I think that was the summary anyway.)

That's my understanding too.  A 1-1 matching of default config files
and dts files kept in the kernel src trees.  Any extra dts files would
be kept whereever dtc src is stored (i.e., jdl.com).  I haven't heard
jdl agree to this, though.  :)

Mark