[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/6] Clean up top-level directory structure

Peter Tyser
2009-07-14T15:20:43Z

On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 14:54 +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
wrote:
> On 22:42 Fri 10 Jul , Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 10 July 2009 21:20:45 Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> > > Peter Tyser wrote:
> > > >> Before verifying MIPS builds, I'd like to make sure that why you take
> > > >> lib/$(ARCH)/ alternative, not $(ARCH)/lib/. If there were any
> > > >> discussion on #IRC, is there any chance we could share the summary or
> > > >> decision to follow?
> > > >
> > > > There was no discussion, /lib/$(ARCH) just made more sense to me and it
> > > > was functionally a direct translation from lib_$(ARCH) to lib/$(ARCH).
> > > >
> > > > Using $(ARCH)/lib wouldn't clean up the top-level directory structure
> > > > much and would open a can of worms that I'm not prepared to deal with at
> > > > this time. For example, if there was an architecture specific
> > >
> > > Oops, I wanted to say "arch/$(ARCH)/lib/", not $(ARCH)/lib/, sorry.
> >
> > i thought that originally, but i dont care much either way. having
> > arch/$(ARCH)/ would line up with u-boot-v2 and the linux kernel though.
> >
> > i dont understand needing a lib/ subdir under arch/$(ARCH)/ though.
> >
> > > > While we're talking about it, I'd always thought it would be nice to
> > > > split out all the cmd_* files from common/ into their own command/
> > > > directory similar to u-boot-v2.
> > >
> > > Ack. The directory structure in u-boot-v2 looks nice, at least, to me,
> > > anyway.
> I prefer the
> arch/$(ARCH)/lib
> so will could also move the cpu stuff there too

I like the Linux and u-boot-v2 directory layout too the more I think
about it too. How about if I resend this series but with the final
directory structure looking like:

/arch/$(ARCH)/lib/<source files currently in lib_$(ARCH)

/lib/
/
/libfdt/
/lzma/
/lzo/

/examples/
/api/
/standalone/

That will lay the groundwork for moving additional files
into /arch/$(ARCH)/ down the road. eg I think it would be nice to move
the directories in /cpu/* into their respective /arch/$(ARCH)/
directory, and possibly the /include/asm-$(ARCH) directories in the long
run.

What do others think of this?

Best,
Peter