Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.4 v4 01/12] ppc: Move Mac machines to hw/ppc/

[Alexander Graf]

On 25.01.2013, at 14:40, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 25 January 2013 13:37, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 25.01.2013, at 14:33, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 25 January 2013 12:49, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Am 25.01.2013 11:43, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>>>> You so far refused to have new SoCs/devices put in hw/arm/. Doing so
>>>> does keep consistency but creates more work moving them later.
>>> 
>>> I haven't *refused*. I just haven't seen a consensus about what
>>> we want the filesystem layout to be, in the absence of which I
>>> haven't seen any great reason to change from the current setup.
>>> If we have that consensus then fine, we can move things around.
>> 
>> I don't care which way we go (everything in hw/ or split into
>> subdirs), but the current state where some logically depending
>> pieces are in hw/ and others are in hw/foo just plain sucks.
>> 
>> Since you don't have that problem, you can just ignore this patch
>> for arm. It's really a cleanup for me so that I stay sane :).
> 
> Well, I do care, because we should be aiming for some consistency
> across architectures, whether we do that by moving more files
> into hw/$arch/ or by moving the handful of files and random
> Makefile.objs out of hw/$arch/...

Sure, how do we reach that consensus? Call in the quorum of the 13 tribes? :)


Alex