From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 13:44:37 +0200 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Categorize ARM dts directory In-Reply-To: References: <20220328000915.15041-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com> <85eb14ec-f465-7447-ad77-a3dabc666f47@kernel.org> <720a2829-b6b5-411c-ac69-9a53e881f48d@app.fastmail.com> Message-ID: <6ece505b-1075-48e6-9ff9-1673014e5df1@app.fastmail.com> List-Id: To: linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, May 4, 2023, at 12:11, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 02:40:19PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: >> I think the only issue remaining is finalizing the mapping of >> platforms to subdirs. What I have currently is a mixture of SoC >> families and vendors. The most notable are all the Freescale/NXP >> platforms, pxa, socfpga, and stm32. It's not consistent with arm64 >> either. Once that's finalized, I still need to go update MAINTAINERS. > > I haven't followed this discussion at all, so here's a question. > > What does this mean for the _installed_ dtb files? Do they move > location? If they do, lots is going to break, because there will > be u-boot configurations and other scripts that assume the flat > directory structure for the installed dtb files. > > I don't think changing the installed dtb structure is acceptable > at this point in time. It's something that _should_ have been > thought about when ARM was converted to dtb, it's too late to be > changing that now. Rob said earlier that his script does keep a flat directory for the output of 'make dtbs_install'. Arnd