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

[Alexander Graf]

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:
>>> ...so why is a big code movement patch 1.4 material?
>>> I would prefer us to wait for 1.5, and then we have a
>>> reasonable chance of saying "release goal for 1.5 is to
>>> have moved all the arch-specific hw files to their new homes".
>>> If we commit this for 1.4 then at 1.4 release the source tree
>>> will be in an odd halfway statet.
>> 
>> 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/foojust 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 :).


Alex