RFC: proposed arch/powerpc directory structure
Becky Bruce
becky.bruce at freescale.com
Thu Aug 11 02:45:10 EST 2005
All,
In the name of moving the much-anticipated 32/64 ppc merge along, Kumar
Gala, Jon Loeliger, and myself have worked out an initial proposal for
the directory structure of the new merged arch/powerpc. Listed below
are the proposed directories, along with a description of the logical
contents, as well as a description of which existing files will be
moved into these directories.
There was some discussion on the list recently about whether or not it
might be better to change things around to be laid out more along the
lines of functionality with, say, all pci-related code in one place.
We've stuck with a more traditional model in this proposal, although
the topic is certainly still up for discussion.
This is just a first pass at a structure - we're really looking for
input from this list on the best way to proceed, and that discussion
needs to start somewhere. BTW, this proposal preempts the previous
64-bit directory structure reorg proposal that I sent to this list a
couple of months ago.
So here it is:
include/powerpc/
arch/powerpc/
configs/
- Kconfig defaults per buildable board.
boot/
- Pre-kernel execution shims and pre-passes.
- Convert firmware reprensentations (bi_recs, OF Dev-Trees,
bootx,bd_t) to flat-dev-trees.
- Includes merged files from arch/ppc*/boot/ trees, plus
prom_init.c from arch/ppc64/kernel.
kernel/
- CPU-centric core code and generic PPC-specific kernel
- Main entry point supports r5=0, r3 = flat-dev-tree, etc.
- Includes all cpu core-specific code, kernel initialization code,
and other generic kernel foo like smp, ptrace, syscalls, etc from
arch/ppc*/kernel. Files not belonging to one of these categories
will be moved to other directories.
platforms/
- platform-specific code laid out in the following directories:
pSeries/
iSeries/
pmac/ (both 32 and 64-bit)
classic32/ (platforms containing 6xx/7xx/74xx/8240/8241/8245)
classic64/ (Maple?)
83xx/ (may collapse into classic 32 at some point)
86xx/ (may collapse into classic 32 at some point)
pq2/ (may collapse into classic 32 at some point)
52xx/ (may collapse into classic 32 at some point)
85xx/
4xx/
8xx/
- Includes all code from arch/ppc/platforms, all code from
arch/ppc64/kernel that is specific to a given platform (where a
platform is a whole computer system or board)
NOTE: there would be no .[chS] files directly under platforms -
all live in subdirs.
mm/
- Memory management, slabs, tlbs, etc.
- Unify LMB and mem_pieces for early boot memory.
- Includes all code from arch/ppc*/mm
sysdev/
- System Device support and Kitchen Sink
- Includes all code currently in arch/ppc/syslib, irq and pci code
that currently lives in arch/ppc/kernel, and all code from
arch/ppc64/kernel that is generic system code, including pci,
irq, interrupt control, bridges, rtas(?)
lib/
- Library code
- Includes all code from arch/ppc*/lib
math-emu/
- Math Emulation for FPU-less ppc32s.
- this is 32-bit only, so this directory would just move from
arch/ppc to arch/powerpc
oprofile/
- Support for oprofile.
- Includes all code from arch/ppc*/oprofile
xmon/
- Support for xmon.
- Includes all code from arch/ppc*xmon
Cheers,
-Becky
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