Dear Jon,
in message 1091550526.15394.281.camel@blarg.somerset.sps.mot.com you wrote:
Right now, code has been developed for two new boards from Freescale: the 8555CDS and the 8541CDS. These are the first introductions for a series of new boards in the "CDS" family. There are future variants of new boards within this family that will be introduced later.
Please decide if you prefer to have a "board/CDSxxx/" or a "board/freescale/CDSxxx/" board directory. [I would probably go for "board/CDSxxx/"]
BOARD CPU MODULE CORE WHEN -------------------------------------- 8555CDS 8555 E500 NOW 8541CDS 8541 E500 NOW 85??CDS 85?? E500 PLAN 86??CDS 86?? 74xx(E600) PLAN
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However, I need to introduce a directory structure for the new Freescale family of CDS boards. There is some amount of shared code that can be leveraged in these boards due to the carrier-card based architecture specifically around areas like the SDRAM, flash, etc. There is also board-specific code like init.S that must be present for each of the different cores.
We would, of course, like to avoid duplicate code for the new CDS variants. Do you have a suggestion as to how we should properly introduce a directory structure for the CDS family and the individual boards?
Have a look at what we're doing with the TQM8xxL/M modules. In your case I'd probably go for something like this:
board/CDSxxx/common/ board/CDSxxx/8541 board/CDSxxx/8555 board/CDSxxx/85?? board/CDSxxx/86?? board/CDSxxx/????
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk