Dear Detlev Zundel, In message <m24os18a3w....@ohwell.denx.de> you wrote: > > >> That being said, I think it > >> would make sense to put the devkit8000 in either board/devkit8000/ or > >> board/embedinfo/devkit8000 now as that is the "correct" place for it. > > > > Well, I just can't see what the advantage of this "correct" place > > might be. So from the rule point of view, it might make sense, but > > maybe we should adapt the rule, then? > > > > Looking at the TI stuff, it seems to me that a lot of (small? > > different?) companies are using the same SoCs and doing boards with > > these. Most of the U-Boot code is similar, then. But these companies > > are doing only one or two boards. So it makes more sense to group > > these boards based on the SoC (vendor), instead of the board vendor or > > even worse the board name. > > Well actually (I think) we agreed on doing the board/vendor scheme. For > example look at board/amcc - there are all the AMCC evalboards basically > each one with a different SoC. Turning this around into board/<soc> > would throw pieces all over the places, which is definitely not what we > want.
Correct. That's the cuirrent "official" definiiton, and so far I see no reason to change it. > Although I think that these arguments carry some value, I know that > one can come up with - basically arbitrarily many other arguments. But > still, we had this discussion already and I do not see that anything > fundamental has changed since the last time around, so please let's not > got into bike-shed painting right now ;) Full ACK. We have a pretty clear definition, and I see no reason to change this. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Pig: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is in- ferior in scope, for it balks at pig. - Ambrose Bierce _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
