Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-17 Thread Graeme Russ
Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Hello Custodians, > > please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory > structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the > directory structure. Just to let you know, the fix up for my i386 patch series was trivial: #!/bin/bash for file

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Graeme Russ, In message you wrote: > > The problem with the current structure is that there is no way of > knowing which $BOARD in board/ uses a particular CPU or SOC. Therefore So look it up in the Makefile, or in MAKEALL - what's exactly the problem? > Exactly - Any code that exists und

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-16 Thread Graeme Russ
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Graeme Russ, > > In message > you wrote: >> >> And then there is also >> >> board/ >> $BOARDC >> $BOARDD >> >> I've never liked code existing on multiple depths like this. Maybe we move >> towards: > > But we're just about adding e

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Alessandro Rubini, In message <20100416065842.ga21...@morgana.gnudd.com> you wrote: > > > I really like this structure, particularly if the code under > > $VENDOR/[common, include, lib] is arch independent. > > Yes, that would be good, if it was a common case. However, > arch-independent co

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Graeme Russ, In message you wrote: > > And then there is also > > board/ > $BOARDC > $BOARDD > > I've never liked code existing on multiple depths like this. Maybe we move > towards: But we're just about adding exactly such multi-depth structures to the CPU directory (see recent disc

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Alessandro Rubini
Graeme, I reply to your messages since it gives somehow more information. I'm now not really convinced that reorganizing board directories would be a big step forward, although I still think it would be better. Si, I'm not arguing strongly, just bringing a point of view. Peter, Wolfgang, I'll try

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Graeme Russ
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Peter Tyser wrote: > Hi Alessandro, > > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 17:31 +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote: >> I can see how it'd be >> >> nice to split up boards into CPU directories, but we'd have to discuss >> >> some of the warts, like where vendor-specific code would

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Alessandro, In message <20100415153127.ga...@morgana.gnudd.com> you wrote: > > > > My gut feeling is that I like the existing board/ approach better, but > > I'm open to arguments. > > Here a pair of arguments... > > Most boards are very similar to the original evaluation kit. For Some b

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Tyser
Hi Alessandro, > > How does putting boards in their appropriate CPU directory make > > your coding any easier? > > Because if all boars with the same SoC are in the same directory they > can share source files. But boards don't need to be in the same directory to share the same source files.

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Alessandro Rubini
>> Most boards are very similar to the original evaluation kit. For >> example, [...] >> Similarly, I'm working on a dave-tech.eu board series based on >> ep9302-ep9315. [...] > I don't follow either argument, or the name-switching argument... Well, the name-switching is half a joke (but the p

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Tyser
Hi Alessandro, On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 17:31 +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > I can see how it'd be > >> nice to split up boards into CPU directories, but we'd have to discuss > >> some of the warts, like where vendor-specific code would be located if > >> we went down that path. > > > > Right. I

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Alessandro Rubini
I can see how it'd be >> nice to split up boards into CPU directories, but we'd have to discuss >> some of the warts, like where vendor-specific code would be located if >> we went down that path. > > Right. I can see arguments pro and con each of the approaches, and I > must admit that I have no

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Peter Tyser, In message <1271343853.6519.6.ca...@localhost.localdomain> you wrote: > > A closely related topic was discussed here: > www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg20367.html > > The conclusion was that grouping boards by vendor as opposed to CPU type > made sense so that the

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Tyser
> > > please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory > > > structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the > > > directory structure. > > > > > > Please make sure to sync your repsitories ASAP. > > > > Do you have any plan to move board dirs to arch folder t

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Wolfgang Denk
[cc: list trimmed as this is not that urgent any more] Dear Michal Simek, In message <4bc6bad2.8040...@monstr.eu> you wrote: > > > please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory > > structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the > > directory structure. > >

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-15 Thread Michal Simek
Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Hello Custodians, > > please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory > structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the > directory structure. > > Please make sure to sync your repsitories ASAP. Do you have any plan to move board dirs t

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Remy Bohmer, In message you wrote: > > Funny... > The wiki (http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CustodianGitTrees) tells the > opposite... Ouch. > What am I missing here? This is somewbody else's working style, not mine. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH,

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hi, 2010/4/13 Wolfgang Denk : > Dear Ben Warren, > > In message <4bc4aa08.1060...@gmail.com> you wrote: >> >> > I do not know if there is a preferred or best way to do it, but in my >> > case a simple git-rebase with the main branch did the job ;). > ... >> Thanks.  I guess git-rebase would be bet

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Jerry Van baren
Dear Wolfgang, On 4/13/2010 5:23 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Hello Custodians, > > please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory > structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the > directory structure. > > Please make sure to sync your repsitories ASAP. > > Th

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Ben Warren, In message <4bc4aa08.1060...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > > I do not know if there is a preferred or best way to do it, but in my > > case a simple git-rebase with the main branch did the job ;). ... > Thanks. I guess git-rebase would be better since that will put my net > repo ch

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Ben Warren, In message <4bc4a09d.20...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > > Please make sure to sync your repsitories ASAP. > > > Please excuse my ignorance, but what's the best way to do this? > git-merge with the main branch? Yes, or - which, assuming your main branch is current, is equivale

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hi, 2010/4/13 Wolfgang Denk : > Hello Custodians, > > please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory > structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the > directory structure. > > Please make sure to sync your repsitories ASAP. FYI: u-boot-usb has been synched.

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Ben Warren
Hi Stefano, On 4/13/2010 10:28 AM, Stefano Babic wrote: > Ben Warren wrote: > >> Hi Wolfgang, >> >> On 4/13/2010 2:23 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> >>> Hello Custodians, >>> >>> please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory >>> structure" patch series. This results in

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Stefano Babic
Ben Warren wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > On 4/13/2010 2:23 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> Hello Custodians, >> >> please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory >> structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the >> directory structure. >> >> Please make sure to sync

Re: [U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Ben Warren
Hi Wolfgang, On 4/13/2010 2:23 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Hello Custodians, > > please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory > structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the > directory structure. > > Please make sure to sync your repsitories ASAP. > >

[U-Boot] [STATUS] Heads-up: Reorganize directory structure

2010-04-13 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Hello Custodians, please note that I have applied Peter Tyser's "Reorganize directory structure" patch series. This results in a massive change of the directory structure. Please make sure to sync your repsitories ASAP. Thanks. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH,