[PATCH v3 4/8] dts: Add alternative location for upstream DTB builds

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 12:27:24PM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 at 23:36, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 09:07:48PM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 at 19:36, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > 2. Choose a directory target for devicetree-rebasing. I see that
> > > > 'barebox' uses 'dts' which seems better to me than
> > > > 'devicetree-rebasing/src/'.
> > >
> > > Actually as part of this patch-set we try to reuse the U-Boot 'dts'
> > > directory (via dts/arch/arm64/<vendor> soft links) since it was
> > > already taken for U-Boot specific DT Makefile. However, I am open to
> > > renaming 'devicetree-rebasing' but to me that sounds more clear that
> > > we maintain a specific subtree within U-Boot.
> >
> > Looking at what little is in dts/ here today could we just use subtree
> > and pop the contents under there, and basically ignore the
> > project-provided Makefile? Or is that not really worth it?
> >
> 
> If we really want to avoid soft links then I did try to add the subree
> with the prefix as dts/upstream here [1]. It works well with the
> downside that we will pollute the subtree source code with U-Boot
> specific Makefiles [2]. However, the subtree pull works fine still. If
> this sounds better to you and Simon then let me know I will use this
> approach for v4.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/b49020/u-boot/commits/use_dts_dir/
> [2] https://github.com/b49020/u-boot/commit/90eabe614e77bc30a437e7d5559c1ac414ac07b3

I think the symlink stuff was part of what was making it more confusing
to add new SoCs to OF_UPSTREAM so yes this looks good to me, and I
appreciate the demo commit showing an update is still easy. Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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