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 50977679FC for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:34:47 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:38:39 -0700 From: "Mark A. Greer" To: Josh Boyer Subject: Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources? Message-ID: <20060809163839.GB17759@mag.az.mvista.com> References: <1154464346.19994.4.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> <1155122309.4040.94.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1155128205.3944.1.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1155128205.3944.1.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:56:45AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:18 +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 15:32 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > > > Where should we place the sources for the OF Flat Device > > > Tree source files? They used to be in U-Boot, but that > > > isn't happening any more. > > > > Why ? While having device-tree's in zImages is good to handle firmwares > > that can't pass them, I still think that the proper thing to do is to > > have the firmware provide the DT to the kernel. Did Denk decide once for > > all against having DTs passed by uboot at all ? In which case, it's > > probably time to consider a fork... > > We're only talking about the _source_ files. The .dts files. Not the > binary trees themselves. > > The basic summary is that having a .dts in the kernel for every > defconfig would be good. (I think that was the summary anyway.) That's my understanding too. A 1-1 matching of default config files and dts files kept in the kernel src trees. Any extra dts files would be kept whereever dtc src is stored (i.e., jdl.com). I haven't heard jdl agree to this, though. :) Mark