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What is the difference between .dts file and .dtsi file?

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What is the difference between .dts file and .dtsi file? Is there a difference when generating device tree blobs? When to use one or the other?

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Leos313 Avatar asked Jan 24 '18 10:01

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Here, as explained by Thomas Petazzoni and as point out in one of the comments by @mc110, you can find that:

  1. .dts <- files for board-level definitions
  2. .dtsi <- files for included files, generally containing SoC-level definitions (the i in dtsi stands for Include)

However, once the .dtb was created with a Device Tree Compiler, if you try to come back again obtaining a text file, only one big file will be created with all the information coming from all the /include/ files.

Note that the i at the end of dtsi stands for include ( observed by @0andriy in one of the comments).

Note also that:

  1. .dts <- Device Tree Source
  2. .dtb <- Devide Tree Blob
  3. .dtsi <- Device Tree Source Include
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