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To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
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Il 14/09/2012 16:37, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> Here are some more ideas:
> 
> * Move the target-xxx directories (currently 15) to target/xxx.

Yes, of course.

> * Add host/xxx for host specific files (xxx = posix, wxx).
>   Here the currently used win32 might be replaced by either
>   wxx or by win as most of it also applies to w64.
>   An alternative solution would add host specific subdirectories
>   to include/qemu and util.

This makes sense, though it becomes more problematic as the host files
are scattered around the tree.

> * Move machine implementations (code which calls machine_init)
>   to the respective architecture directories (hw/arm, ...).
>   Meanwhile we have more than 50 machine implementations in hw.
>   We could also replace hw/alpha, hw/arm, hw/cris, ... to
>   hw/arch/alpha and so on.
> 
> * Move hardware implementations which are architecture specific
>   to the architecture directories. This is sometimes less obvious
>   than the machine implementations.

This I left out purposedly. :)

Paolo