Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > On 14.12.2016 12:33, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 14 December 2016 at 11:21, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> 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 already got folders in folders in a lot of places, so this is not > increasing the maximum depths ;-)
Let me rephrase: I hate making directory tree *branches* 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. > > Yes, and please consider that there are more targets coming soon ... > RISC-V, AVR, ... and I am pretty sure that we won't stop there. Even doubling the number of target-* won't make our root directory appreciatively messier. > With regards to the other *.c files in the main directory, I agree with > Markus, we should move some of them to suitable subdirectories, too. I > could have a look at that when I've got some spare minutes... Thanks in advance!
