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Re: New ARM core port
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Patrick Doyle <wpd at delcomsys dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 18 Dec 2002 13:08:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] New ARM core port
- References: <NFBBJAJICAKJPMMKDAGBAELCDHAA.wpd@delcomsys.com>
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 12:59, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I am looking for some advice for the directory structure of my new ARM-core
> port. I am porting eCos to Texas Instrument's new family of OMAP devices.
> These devices have an ARM9 core plus a DSP core in the same package. For my
> first pass, I simply added my development board to the arm/arm9 HAL tree.
> Now that I have a second development board, I am about to create a new tree
> and clean up/discard the old one.
>
> My first inclination is to create a separate omap tree, i.e. arm/omap,
> create an arm/omap/var directory, and other directories for each board under
> arm/omap, since that is what I see now. OTOH, when we did our '8260 port,
> we simply created both the 8260 variant and the platform hal directly in the
> powerpc tree. OTOH, there are no variant HALS listed under hal/arm, just
> subdirectories with specific variants in them.
>
> So, going forward, which model would you prefer to see followed in the arm
> tree: the arm model or the powerpc model?
I don't see any good reason to break how the ARM platforms are
already being handled (yes, I know they don't match how PowerPC
and MIPS are done), so I think just putting it under hal/arm/arm9
would be best.
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