[U-Boot] Rules for board/* directory, was: [PATCH v3] Adding support for DevKit8000

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Detlev Zundel,

In message <m24os18a3w.fsf at 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

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