Hi,
Hello Again
Michal, on xilinx boards almost everything can be handled by edk+xparameters, but in other boards this is not true. Last month I was working on a board that had a weird watchdog and a memory that needed to handled by a propietary IP, in this case, we need a board directory because the generic board should not support it: otherwise the generic board will have many defiles like #ifdef STRANGE_BOARD_USED_ONCE :)
I know that I wrote that not every possible choices are covered but you wrote that you use proprietary IP. Yes, we will need board directory for proprietary solution. Look at my first email I wrote about. Of course if you do your project you should create some directories only for you. But I think we don't need special folder for reference design and board.
Your STRANGE_BOARD_USED_ONCE choice is due to you use something strange which should not go to mainline U-BOOT. I don't like strange things. If is something strange you have to find out why. Just writing strange is more stranger for others which will read your code.
Please add more choices which you need in your config.
Memory, flash, iic, spi, watchdog, dtc, maybe gpio - but this is not important dcr reading, systemace, ethernet controllers, uarts
I see maybe 20 ifdef choices not more right now. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Michal
Waiting for your comments.