Re: Device Tree Evolution Project - call notes - 29th January

[Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 04:58:26PM +0000, William Mills wrote:
>Steve,
>
>Can TI get on the agenda for this week's meeting?
>
>We have a simple approach to make progress on boot loader applied overlays.
>It is a small repo with just the overlays.
>It builds the dtb's from the upstream kernel repo and the overlays from this repo.
>We are going to do this at git.ti.com so we can make progress.
>However we would like to suggest this as a simple way forward to collectively host things the kernel maintainers do not want in the kernel.
>Does it make sense to host something like this in devicetree.org github account?

I think so, yes - I see Grant has already responded there.

>I think this is a very reasonable way forward and more practical than:
>* moving all DT's out of the kernel (or sync'ing two homes etc)
>* reworking overlay support to be the "one final good way"
>* everyone keeping this stuff in their own vendor trees, each doing something different and generating N solutions
>
>We will push the repo somewhere public before the meeting.

Cool. :-)

>(CC'ing Tom and Tony does not constituent their endorsement, we are starting to talk with them now also)

ACK!

Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
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