From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [63.81.120.158]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34E567BC7 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 04:19:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:23:19 -0700 From: "Mark A. Greer" To: Grant Likely Subject: Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources? Message-ID: <20060802182319.GI17652@mag.az.mvista.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <528646bc0608012020l11690cf7wbb7d93e6ba6eae90@mail.gmail.com> 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 Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:20:52PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > On 8/1/06, Josh Boyer wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:35 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:01:33PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 23:00 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > >> > > > >> > > Mark A. Greer in his patch to port sandpoint to arch/powerpc put > >> > > sandpoint.dts under arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sandpoint.dts > >> > > >> > I believe in his latest patches he removed this part. The device trees > >> > were not included at all and he left this point open for discussion. > >> > >> That's correct. > >> > >> TBH, I think its wrong to keep them in the kernel source at all--yes, > >> the same argument could be made for arch/powerpc/boot but that's been > >> settled. > > > >Sorry, I have to disagree. We're talking about device tree _source_ > >files here. I believe they should be included in the kernel source. > >Where that is, I don't have a particularly strong argument but they > >should be included. > > I have to second that opinion. The device tree is absolutely integral > with the rest of the code/drivers needed to support a board. I say > there are stronger arguments for keeping the dts files in the kernel > source than there are for the boot wrapper. Well, the dts is no good to you without dtc so do we put dtc in the kernel source tree too? > powerpc/boot/dts makes a lot of sense to me. If it goes in the kernel src, I think that's the place as well. Mark