> This is mostly addressed to Ralf, but I'll take ideas from anybody. :-)
>
> I had begun to organise the DEC-specific include files into a directory
> under include/asm-mips/dec... but noticed that for machines like the SGI,
> the convention has been to simply name the files such that they begin with
> 'sgi'. For example:
>
> sgi.h
> sgialib.h
> sgiarcs.h
> sgidefs.h
> sgihpc.h
> sgimc.h
> sgint23.h
>
> ...is this preferred, or would it be better to have machine-specific sub-
> directories? My only worry is that with the number of DECstation models,
> there may be quite a few dec-specific files... and I think even the SGI
> stuff is begining to look a little messy.
Similar for other machines. We've that many different types of MIPS machines
that we'll end up with zillions of files in one directory. I guess the
MIPS port of Linux has good chances to become the biggest one meassured
in bytes ...
Ralf
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