Re: thinning out mainboard directories

[ron minnich]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> failover.c
> this seems to be the same on all K8 boards. It contains code that is
> specific to the amd 8111 south bridge. I suggest splitting this in 
> two pieces, one going to the cpu/k8 code, the other one going to the
> southbridge directory. Maybe this could even be used by x86 based 
> non-K8 boards?

sounds good.
> chip.h
> What exactly is this good for? It seems to be unused by all K8 boards.
> Do we need it? Should it be merged with mainboard.c?

the plan was to contain mainboard-specific stuff in here, generated by the
config tool, just as in all other devices. If we are not going to use it
it should go away. No one appears to be using it.
> irq_tables.c and mptable.c will hopefully become autogenerated from
> config some time, too.

some day ...

I like it, reducing # files is good.

ron