Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9 v2] Move target-* CPU file into a target/ folder

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 December 2016 at 11:21, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> We've currently got 18 architectures in QEMU, and thus 18 target-xxx
>> folders in the root folder of the QEMU source tree. More architectures
>> (e.g. RISC-V, AVR) are likely to be included soon, too, so the main
>> folder of the QEMU sources slowly gets quite overcrowded with the
>> target-xxx folders.
>> To disburden the main folder a little bit, let's move the target-xxx
>> folders into a dedicated target/ folder, so that target-xxx/ simply
>> becomes target/xxx/ instead.
>
> The root directory is crowded, but hardly because of its 18 target-*
> entries:
>
>     $ git-ls-tree --name-only v2.8.0-rc3 | wc -l
>     167
>
> Getting the 18 target-* out of the way would help a little, but I hate
> making the directory tree deeper.
>
> We have 110 files in the root directory.  Moving some of them to
> subdirectories looks more promising to me.

True, but Thomas has done the work here already, so I don't think
we lose anything by merging it rather than throwing it away.

(My gut feeling here is "meh", but that was also how I felt about
Paolo's rearrangement of everything into subdirectories of hw/,
and in hindsight that was clearly the right thing. So I'm assuming
my gut is wrong here too.)

thanks
-- PMM