All, At last weeks devicetree irc meeting, I took on the task of writing this email. I'm a bit behind. One of the outcomes of the ARM/devicetree discussion at the 2013 Kernel Summit was that we were going to hold off on separating the devicetree from the Linux kernel tree. The primary reason for this was to get through the backlog of patches. It's been several months, and we're seeing evidence of other projects having difficulty keeping in sync with the kernel tree. Specifically, barebox is having trouble syncing: http://list-archives.org/2014/02/07/barebox-lists-infradead-org/devicetree-maintenance-in-barebox/f/5820726136 U-boot has some questionable (admittedly from early on) nodes. I'll refrain from singling out a board file or commit. Interested individuals can look through the irc archives for #devicetree. At any rate, reportedly, Wolfgang confirmed at the U-Boot minisummit that the dts files in U-Boot would match the ones from the kernel. So U-Boot is in the same situation as barebox, wrt syncing. BSD is also adopting devicetree, but I'm not personally familiar with the status of that. Nor whether it's diverged from what we have. On the Linux side, it appears to me that we have successfully removed the bottleneck, and patches seem to be flowing fairly well now. For the past few months, Ian has been maintaining a devicetree repo at http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/ianc/device-tree-rebasing.git;a=summary Now for the questions: - Is the Linux development workflow ready for devicetree to move out of the Linux Kernel? - Would having the devicetree in it's own repo, with it's own workflow and release schedule help the other users of it? - Where should it be hosted? - How do we envision projects will use it? git submodule? reference a version tag? (this is primarily targeted at bootloaders that need to compile in a dtb or subset of a dtb into the bootloader) Other thoughts I may have missed? thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
