Re: Moving ARM dts files

From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: "Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
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Subject: Re: Moving ARM dts files
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:57:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL_JsqL7Rnb5Tt5ZAm9TDqgcenkkMEzM6STfwKXMDMKkkxqQvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbzyZD23JapAxEKc24jSwmZws5LqWS8O2Y4-VA3smgYyQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:30 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 3:05 PM Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > On 06/12/2018 07:58:24-0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 7:39 AM Uwe Kleine-König
> > > <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 09:01:59AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > > > i.MX23 is a Sigmatel chip STMP??
> > > >
> > > > I think the Freescale i.MX23 didn't exist at Sigmatel back then. AFAIK
> > > > this is a new design using IP from Sigmatel after the aquisition.
> > >
> > > It is not. I was in the i.MX group which Sigmatel was merged into at
> > > the time. Purely marketing rebranding.
> > >
> >
> > Wouldn't it be easier to name the directory to the corresponding mach-*
> > entry?
> >
> > So, imx23 and imx28 would go to mxs/, other imx in imx/. And this also
> > solves the Marvell mess with the Synaptics Socs going in berlin/ and the
> > other ones in mvebu/.
>
> I like this idea.

Fine by me though I think marvell gets more complicated than that.
I'll try a pass at that at least for the cases with a mixture of
families.

> We discussed merging all ARM reference design mach-* to one dir
> if I just name that mach-arm then we get a convergence to the
> vendor name in some organic way.

TBC, you want .../boot/dts/arm/* for all the ARM, Ltd boards? Just
making sure as you were arguing against vendor names. :)

Rob

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