Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make: automatically include dependencies in recursive subdir rules (v2)

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 18 June 2012 11:42, Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:
> Am 18.06.2012 11:31, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>> (Does architecture-specific separation make much sense in general?
>> Not all devices are architecture-specific. I'd have thought that
>> a functional split eg timer/serial/usb like the linux kernel layout
>> would be better.)
>
> Maybe you're misreading me? I was saying iff a device is specifically
> (not accidentally) for one target foo then it may/should be placed into
> hw/foo/ directory.

Yes, I'm saying that seems like a confusing split, because a few
devices for target foo will be in hw/foo and a number more in hw/,
and there'll probably be cases where something in hw/foo has to
move out into hw/ when a new target comes along that happens to
reuse it. So rather than having hw/foo where foo == target-name,
I'm suggesting hw/foo where foo == kind-of-device. As you say
we've already moved a bit down this road with usb, for instance.

-- PMM