On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 11:21 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 29/03/2022 9:50 am, Nicolas Ferre wrote: > > Ansuel, All, > > > > On 28/03/2022 at 10:55, Daniel Palmer wrote: > >> Hi Ansuel > >> > >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 at 09:09, Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> as the title say, the intention of this ""series"" is to finally > >>> categorize > >>> the ARM dts directory in subdirectory for each oem. > >> > >> While I agree with this change and think it's for the good (browsing > >> the ARM dts directory at the moment is frustrating..) I think > >> buildroot and others need to be told about this as it'll potentially > >> break their kernel build scripting for ARM and probably messes up the > >> configs they have for existing boards. > > > > This aspect mustn't be underestimated and I anticipate lots of issues > > during a long time on this particular topic of "build systems". > > > > Another aspect is CI and public or private testing farms we all have > > running. > > Yet another is if this affects what `make dtbs_install` does (I don't > know for sure, but I'd be inclined to suspect it might). Some distros > use that to deliver the DTBs as part of their kernel package, so if > paths suddenly change it could break end users' bootloader setups too. Indeed, this came up last time. Turns out I had already implemented support to maintain the flat install. I just re-wrote it since Makefile.dtbinst changed completely since then. Rob
