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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Dirk Behme,

In message <4A8EC01F.7040307 at googlemail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I could add the opposite example:
> 
> A <vendor == TI> OMAP3 based board (e.g. Beagle) has no adhesion with 
> a <vendor == TI> DaVinci board.

I tend to interpret this as poor board support by that vendor, then.

A vendor  who  has  several  boards  to  suuport,  does  himself  and
especially  all his users a big fevour if he implements a common look
and feel - compare what boards  manufactured  for  example  by  AMCC,
Freescale  (at least more recent ports) or TQ are doing (alphabetical
oder, in case you did not notice) - they try  to  provide  a  similar
setup  of  their environment variables, etc. - no matter which actual
processor or SoC a board may be based on.

It is intentional that the current directury struxcture supports this.

> Sounds like you propose to put omap3 *board* common stuff into *cpu* 
> directory?

If _all_ OMAP3 boards share this stuff, then t i indeed not board
common, but CPU coomon, and should go into the CPU directory. Well
spotted.

> > Finding boards with the same architecture was always very easy by
> > grepping the include/config/* files.  We do not need a representation of
> > this fact below board/.
> 
> But it wouldn't hurt?

Yes, it would, It would disrupt order.

> Could we agree to be more flexible with this rule?

No. :-)

> Independent of the rule, do you see any advantage of switching existing
> 
> board/omap3/
> board/davinci/
> 
> into something like
> 
> board/DigiKey/beagle (or board/TI/beagle?)
> board/gumstix/overo
> board/mistral/evm (or board/TI/evm? )
> board/xx/pandora
> board/zz/zoom1
> board/yy/zoom2

That should indeed be board/TI/beagle, board/TI/evm, if TI is the
board vendor.

> Except to follow the rule?

Yes, please follow the rules :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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