On Thu, 04 May 2023 22:29:29 -0500 Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 Highbank: Acked-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> Thanks, Andre
