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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:23:56 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] Location of headers for IP blocks
In-Reply-To: <4BA3C74A.1050901@psyent.com> (Scott McNutt's message of "Fri, 19
	Mar 2010 14:49:46 -0400")
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Hi Scott,

> When an IP block can be shared among several different
> architectures, where should the _header_ files be located?
>
> Examples of such blocks would be OpenCores peripherals,
> Altera peripherals, etc.
>
> Some peripherals may not need to export any interfaces,
> so no header file is necessary. But this certainly is not
> the case for all peripherals.
>
> Any precedents, comments, suggestions?

Linux is always a good precedent, so checking there should give us a
clue.

Apart from that I'd go for include/device-type/...   Names of
manufacturers change _way_ too often :)

Cheers
  Detlev

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