From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from az33egw01.freescale.net (az33egw01.freescale.net [192.88.158.102]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FFC267BC4 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:09:54 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources? From: Matthew McClintock To: Tom Rini In-Reply-To: <20060802163822.GK3075@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <1154464346.19994.4.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> <1154466094.11069.6.camel@localhost> <20060802003504.GA20439@mag.az.mvista.com> <1154481150.2676.3.camel@vader.jdub.homelinux.org> <528646bc0608012020l11690cf7wbb7d93e6ba6eae90@mail.gmail.com> <33AC4A3A-876A-4AF9-B851-928EE80A9D80@kernel.crashing.org> <20060802163822.GK3075@smtp.west.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:09:21 -0500 Message-Id: <1154542161.5550.25.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" , Guennadi Liakhovetski List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 09:38 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > I'll throw in the caveat that I'm not 100% sure we're that stable yet, > but it certainly seems like it, at least for the overall portion where > you might really have incompatible trees. More or less complete (now > every device is described!) dts should be interchangable to the kernel > for the custom board X is just a little different from ref board Y > issues (and now, in theory, the Just Like A Sandpoint board, with a > correct dts will boot the 'sandpoint' kernel). The sandpoint (as far as I know) does not have a stable DTS. So in this case including the DTS in the kernel would reduce confusion. The same could be said for other boards where the DTS needed to be changed for the IRQ rework. The old DTS will no longer boot the new kernels. I'm not sure how much longer we will run into this problem though. -Matthew