Re: RFC: Location for Device Tree Sources?

["Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On 8/1/06, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@jdub.homelinux.org> 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.

powerpc/boot/dts makes a lot of sense to me.

g.

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