Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: bcm: Use a symlink to R-Pi dtsi files from arch=arm

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Aug 03 2016 - 09:14:21 EST


On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ../../../arm... style cross-references added by commit 9d56c22a7861
> ("ARM: bcm2835: Add devicetree for the Raspberry Pi 3.") do not work in the
> context of the split device-tree repository[0] (where the directory
> structure differs). As with commit 8ee57b8182c4 ("ARM64: dts: vexpress: Use
> a symlink to vexpress-v2m-rs1.dtsi from arch=arm") use symlinks instead.
>
> These includes in turn require a skeleton.dtsi to be present, so add one as
> a real file (with the same contents as arch/arm) rather than a symlink.

I don't follow why skeleton.dtsi is needed. The 32-bit RPi dts files
are including it? If so, can we just remove it. We decided
skeleton.dtsi was a bad idea.

Rob