[PATCH v2 2/2] Add dts file to generate dtb binary file for Beaglebone black.

[Christian Mauderer]

Am 13.07.2017 um 04:33 schrieb Chris Johns:
> On 13/07/2017 12:22, Sichen Zhao wrote:
>> 在 2017年07月12日 21:52, Gedare Bloom 写道:
>>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Sichen Zhao <1473996754 at qq.com> wrote:
>>>> +These files are imported from FreeBSD.
>>>> +These files is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License * version 2.
>>> We should not pollute the RTEMS sources with GPL2 code. Is there an
>>> alternative approach to use?
>> The another way is to directly use dtb binary file, but bin file also 
>> has a gpl2 license. So this way is not acceptable.
>> Gedare said the scripts directory may be appropriate for rtems-tools.git 
>> or something. So i can provide a default one that can be used, it may be 
>> downloadable from somewhere e.g. in rtems-tools or from a FTP.
>> And this is the way to keep GPL code from RTEMS sources.
>> What do you think about?
> 
> The ftp site is ok but please make sure you have the source with any binary file
> and all copyright details are valid.
> 
> We should keep the rtems-tools.git repo as free of GPL as possible.
> 
> Chris
> 

Seems like no one wants the device tree files in any rtems repo. Do we
need an extra rtems-devicetree repository for all BSPs that support
device trees (currently two)? Maybe one that just takes over the scripts
from FreeBSD to import the device tree sources from Linux?

Kind regards

Christian
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