linux-kernel - Re: common location for devicetree files

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Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:37:22 -0500
From:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: common location for devicetree files

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@...eaurora.org> 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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