Dear Graeme Russ,

In message <r2sd66caabb1004160445t8832c707w8ac6c7b903e1f...@mail.gmail.com> you 
wrote:
>
> The problem with the current structure is that there is no way of
> knowing which $BOARD in board/ uses a particular CPU or SOC. Therefore

So look it up in the Makefile, or in MAKEALL - what's exactly the
problem?

> Exactly - Any code that exists under multiple existing $BOARDx dirs
> which is only duplicated 'by bad example' and is, in reality, CPU or SOC
> specific should be moved into the appropriate arch/ dir. Once the
> /board/$[cpu, soc]-generic/$BOARD move has been been done, identifying
> the duplicate code will be that much easier

Identification of such code has never been a real problem. The
problem is that it needs somebody to come up with patches to clean up
the mess. I doubt that the number of volunteers will significantly
grow just by reorganizing the directory structure.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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