Hi Rob,
On Thu, May 04 2023, Rob Herring wrote:
> The arm dts directory has grown to 1553 boards which makes it a bit
> unwieldy to maintain and use. Past attempts stalled out due to plans to
> move .dts files out of the kernel tree. Doing that is no longer planned
> (any time soon at least), so let's go ahead and group .dts files by
> vendors. This move aligns arm with arm64 .dts file structure.
>
> Doing this enables building subsets of dts files by vendor easily
> without changing kernel configs:
>
> make allyesconfig
> make arch/arm/boot/dts/ti/
>
> There's no change to dtbs_install as the flat structure is maintained on
> install.
>
> The naming of vendor directories is roughly in this order of preference:
> - Matching original and current SoC vendor prefix/name (e.g. ti, qcom)
> - Current vendor prefix/name if still actively sold (SoCs which have
> been aquired) (e.g. nxp/imx)
> - Existing platform name for older platforms not sold/maintained by any
> company (e.g. gemini, nspire)
>
> The whole move was scripted with the exception of MAINTAINERS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
For Conexant Digicolor:
Acked-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
baruch
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