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On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:15:53 -0600
Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/05/2013 03:50 PM, Robie Basak wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:41:10PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> >> Can We all agree to implement ensuing that dtb files will be
> >> available in /boot/dtb/
> > 
> > For what hardware are you proposing this? New ones? Or are you
> > saying that we should change hardware that we've already enabled,
> > so now we have two possible locations to consider on those
> > (existing installations and your new standard)?
> 
> In almost all cases right now, don't distro packages provide the DTB
> files, so if a common location is decided upon, you just need to
> update that package to move the files to the appropriate location.
> 
> In other words, when you install a distro, how do the files get onto
> disk in the first place? The distro is in control of that, in most
> cases, right?

Other than calxeda the dtbs are shipped by the distro. for pxe booting
the dtb files would get placed in /dtb/ in the tftproot along with
install kernels and initramfs's but the hardware vendor would be free
to ship a dtb and use it.

Dennis
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