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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org list"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: common location for devicetree files
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:35:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111173500.GM21201@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528104AD.9030102@wwwdotorg.org>

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:24:13PM +0000, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/08/2013 11:32 AM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:17:30PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > ...
> >> I get the point, just not sure how else to sort the 800+ .dts{i} files
> >> that we have in the kernel tree right now.
> > 
> > Well, to start with, all #include'd files could go into a
> > arch/dts/include directory.  That would clean things up a bit.
> > 
> > We could also consider separating the dts files by ISA.  All armv7 in
> > one directory, armv8, armv5te, powerpc, mips, etc.
> 
> It's quite likely people will want to share some significant *.dtsi
> across multiple architectures.

At the moment we have some duplication of Versatile Express dtsi files
across the arm{,64}/boot/dts/ folders that could be shared. We already
share similar dtsi files between dts for ARMv7 and ARMv8 boards in
Pawel's external arm-dts repo [1].

Sharing across ISAs is important to me at least.

Mark.

[1] http://linux-arm.org/git?p=arm-dts.git;a=tree;f=versatile_express;h=7559c30fa94c471ff2a08c7936c5c01139d16f33;hb=18db2060268ae5b2b8616ba87376d73e338d4ca2

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-07 23:21 common location for devicetree files Kumar Gala
2013-11-08 16:52 ` Jason Cooper
     [not found]   ` <20131108165255.GA32668-u4khhh1J0LxI1Ri9qeTfzeTW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-08 17:59     ` Kumar Gala
2013-11-08 18:13       ` Jason Cooper
2013-11-08 18:17         ` Kumar Gala
2013-11-08 18:32           ` Jason Cooper
     [not found]             ` <20131108183240.GH10335-u4khhh1J0LxI1Ri9qeTfzeTW4wlIGRCZ@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-11 16:24               ` Stephen Warren
     [not found]                 ` <528104AD.9030102-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-11 16:34                   ` Jason Cooper
2013-11-11 17:35                 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
     [not found] ` <1438803E-C904-428B-B042-891978BC15DF-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-08 19:33   ` Olof Johansson
2013-11-08 19:37     ` Jason Cooper

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