Re: common location for devicetree files

From: Jason Cooper
Date: Fri Nov 08 2013 - 14:37:28 EST


On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:33:00AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As we start having more sharing of device trees between architectures (arm & arm64, arm & powerpc, guessing maybe mips & arm) we need dts to live in location that
> >
> > I was wondering what people felt about doing:
> >
> > arch/dts/<VENDOR>/
> >
> > as a common location that could be shared. I'm up for other suggestions.
>
> dts isn't an architecture, so having it directly under arch/ doesn't
> make sense. I know it's the first common parent of a lot of platforms
> though.
>
> I'd be ok with adding a toplevel dts/ directory for this, for lack of
> better options. It doesn't really fit under firmware, lib, kernel,
> scripts, tools...

I'll admit I shied away from that thought (dts/) for fear of the wrath
of the greybeards. :)

thx,

Jason.
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