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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Categorize ARM dts directory
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On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 02:40:19PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> I think the only issue remaining is finalizing the mapping of
> platforms to subdirs. What I have currently is a mixture of SoC
> families and vendors. The most notable are all the Freescale/NXP
> platforms, pxa, socfpga, and stm32. It's not consistent with arm64
> either. Once that's finalized, I still need to go update MAINTAINERS.

I haven't followed this discussion at all, so here's a question.

What does this mean for the _installed_ dtb files? Do they move
location? If they do, lots is going to break, because there will
be u-boot configurations and other scripts that assume the flat
directory structure for the installed dtb files.

I don't think changing the installed dtb structure is acceptable
at this point in time. It's something that _should_ have been
thought about when ARM was converted to dtb, it's too late to be
changing that now.

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