Hello Simon,

On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 09:23:05 -0700, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Albert,

> [...]
>
> I think the ARM core name is a convenient way of splitting things up
> and has served us well. But now the common elements are more at the
> SOC level. Yes the idea of arch/arm/soc/mach-... is more pure from a
> hierarchical point of view, but arch/arm/mach-... would be my
> preference. I feel that arch/arm is underused now, and U-Boot is
> growing so we should try to 'balance' the source tree, making sure
> each level of the hierarchy justifies itself with enough
> files/subdirs, etc.
> 
> [...]

Can't say I like directory entry count as a criterion for structuring a
source code tree, but apart from that nitpick, the rest of your and
others' explanations (skipped here for clarity) makes sense. Oh well,
I'll have to learn to live without a soc subdir. :)

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.
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