[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/21] ARM: start to move SoC code into arch/arm/mach-*

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2015-02-02 10:18:23, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 01/31/2015 08:20 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >Hi Albert,
> >
> >On 31 January 2015 at 20:02, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> >>Hello Masahiro,
> >>
> >>On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:11:02 +0900, Masahiro Yamada
> >><yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>This series can be applied on the current u-boot/master
> >>>(commit 37b608a52dcb133)
> >>
> >>I'd rather not have all mach-* directories just below arch/arm/. Can't
> >>they be created under arch/arm/soc/ instead? That would give a cleaner
> >>structure IMO.
> >
> >It does save a level and I am forever typing cpu/armv7 to get what
> >feels like nowhere...this is what the kernel does and it does seem
> >convenient.
> 
> Do note that arch/arm/mach* doesn't/won't entirely match what the Linux
> kernel does.
> 
> In Linux, arch/arm64 doesn't have mach-* sub-directories, and the arm/arm64
> architectures are different so don't share the code in arch/arm/mach-tegra,
> so there's work underway to move stuff out of arch/arm/mach-tegra and into
> either appropriate subsystem directories or drivers/soc/tegra.
> 
> Given all that, I suspect we should decide the directory layout of U-Boot
> based on what's best for U-Boot, not by trying to chase the changing target
> of the Linux kernel.

Well, I'd say that best directory layout is the one we are familiar
with ... from Linux. And we don't need to chase that target.
									Pavel
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