Re: [PATCH] Add Linux dts files and use them

[Alexander Shiyan]

Mon, 5 May 2014 10:20:49 +0200 от Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>:
> Some updates how I intend to handle upstream dts changes in barebox.
> 
> - I will merge the latest upstream dts changes to barebox for each Linux
>   rc. Should dts changes introduce regressions this will at least give us
>   the Linux rc which introduced it
> - I will always merge dts updates to barebox next, not to master. While
>   dts changes may be needed in master to fix regressions on one board,
>   they could also introduce new regressions on other boards. Should we
>   need dts changes to fix regressions in barebox master, we have to do
>   it using overlays in arch/*/dts/ until an upstream fix arrives in dts/
> - I will not send the dts updates to the list, I'll just merge them to
>   barebox next some time after a new Linux rc arrived (As just happened
>   with 3.15-rc3)

Just to understand our further concept:

(I will use the example based on i.MX25).
We have 3 files in the arch/arm/dts/imx25*.
Should we now remove all of them, create our overlay for karo-tx25 board
and include basic file <arm/imx25-karo-tx25.dts> in the top of new overlay
file as basic DTS?

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