Hello Rob,
On 04/12/2018 12:36:49-0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Olof, Arnd,
>
> I've put together a script to move the dts files and update the
> makefiles. It doesn't handle files not following a common prefix which
> isn't many and some includes within the dts files will need some fixups
> by hand.
>
> MAINTAINERS will also need updating.
>
> A few questions:
>
> Do we want to move absolutely everything to subdirs? There's quite a
> few platforms with only 1-2 platforms. I haven't added these to the
> list yet, but can.
>
> Do any vendors need another level of directories? davinci, omap, nspire,
> etc. for TI for example.
>
> What to do with armv7m.dtsi? I guess it should remain and we just fixup
> the include. There may be a few other cross vendor things.
>
>
> Sub-arch maintainers,
> 'vendor_map' below is the mapping of file prefix to new subdirectory
> (the SoC vendor prefix). Please comment if there are any issues.
>
> Rob
>
> 8<-----------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python3
>
> import os
> import re
> from git import Git
> import glob
>
> vendor_map = {
> 'imx': 'fsl',
> 'ls': 'fsl',
> 'vf': 'fsl',
> 'qcom': 'qcom',
> 'am3' : 'ti',
> 'am4' : 'ti',
> 'am5' : 'ti',
> 'da' : 'ti',
> 'dm' : 'ti',
> 'dra' : 'ti',
> 'keystone' : 'ti',
> 'omap' : 'ti',
> 'nspire' : 'ti',
> 'armada' : 'marvell',
> 'berlin' : 'marvell',
> 'dove' : 'marvell',
> 'kirkwood' : 'marvell',
> 'orion' : 'marvell',
> 'pxa' : 'marvell',
> 'mvebu' : 'marvell',
> 'mmp2' : 'marvell',
> 'arm-' : 'arm',
> 'integ' : 'arm',
> 've' : 'arm',
> 'aspeed' : 'aspeed',
> 'at91' : 'atmel',
> 'sama' : 'atmel',
Unfortunately, we have many boards without a proper prefix. Wouldn't it
be better to use arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile and map dtb-$(CONFIG_*) to a
vendor directory?
This way you would be sure to not miss any. This would also ease the
creation of subdirs if we decide to do that.
--
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
