Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] ARM: dts: am335x-bone: add support for beaglebone NAND cape

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> On May 19, 2014, at 12:22 PM, "Robert Nelson" <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Kridner, Jason <jdk@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On May 19, 2014, at 11:58 AM, "Robert Nelson" <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Gupta, Pekon <pekon@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> From: Robert Nelson [mailto:robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx]
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> Since the capes are always some way tied with bb.org hardware, why
>> 
>> don't we put them up on https://github.com/beagleboard/ ?
>> 
>> 
>> am335x-capes.git ?
>> 
>> 
>> I envision, we should just mirror the base ./arch/arm/boot/dts/
>> 
>> directory (as someday the dts will be external anyways). In that repo,
>> 
>> we will keep these synced with mainline
>> 
>> 
>> am335x-bone-common.dtsi
>> 
>> am335x-bone.dts
>> 
>> am335x-boneblack.dts
>> 
>> 
>> and add the capes as:
>> 
>> 
>> <baseboard>-<cape>.dts
>> 
>> 
>> as a staging ground till a mainline overlay/etc system appears?
>> 
>> 
>> Thoughs?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you know and can convince 'Gerald Coley' then plz try. I failed :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Oh, I'll do it... ;)
>> 
>> I just need Jason to create the intial "repo" for me on
>> github.com/beagleboard and enable my permission for it.
>> 
>> 
>> I believe this is the same reason I created
>> https://github.com/beagleboard/cape-firmware.  Is something else needed?
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Same exact idea. But instead of the "overlay" dts's that get installed
> in /lib/firmware/ this will be for the main kernel dtb files, that'll
> be dumped in /boot/dtbs/*.dtb or /boot/*.dtb.  In theory we should be
> able to build these outside kernel.org, so down the road we can add a
> package for all the other distro's.

Why not reuse the same repo since the capes would be in there too? Does it need renaming?

> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Robert Nelson
> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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