Re: [ECOS] eCos Device Driver reorganization

[Hugo 'NOx' Tyson <hmt at cygnus dot co dot ukx>]

Hugo Tyson <hmt@cygnus.co.uk> (I, myself, me) writes:
> Folks, we're about to embark on a bit of a rearrangement of the
> eCos device driver tree, including serial devices, ethernet devices
> and the wallclock and watchdog.

And it's all true.  Apart from this bit, where I lied: 

> Package names will be of the form:

>         (parent is CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL for these...)
>         CYGPKG_DEVS_SERIAL_ARM_AEB
>         CYGPKG_DEVS_SERIAL_ARM_CMA230
>         CYGPKG_DEVS_SERIAL_ARM_EDB7XXX
>         CYGPKG_DEVS_SERIAL_ARM_PID
>         CYGPKG_DEVS_SERIAL_MIPS_TX3904
>         CYGPKG_DEVS_SERIAL_MIPS_...
>         CYGPKG_DEVS_SERIAL_....
> 
> (and so on...)

We were always going to keep the _internal_ options with their "old" names
for compatibility, (these sorts of options:
	CYGDAT_IO_SERIAL_ARM_EBSA285_SERIAL_NAME "/dev/ser1"
	CYGNUM_IO_SERIAL_ARM_EBSA285_SERIAL_BAUD 38400
	CYGNUM_IO_SERIAL_ARM_EBSA285_SERIAL_BUFSIZE 128
are unchanged) but it turns out to be a PITA to change the top-level
package names.  So these will retain their old name, but they will be
separate packages rather than mere components.

         (parent is CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL for these...)
         CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_ARM_AEB
         CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_ARM_CMA230
         CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_ARM_EDB7XXX
         CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_ARM_PID
         CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_MIPS_TX3904
         CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_MIPS_...
         CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_....

They will still live within the IO_SERIAL heirarchy in configtool world,
but sources will be in packages/devs/serial/arm/ebsa285 as described in my
earlier message.

Thanks for your time,

	- Huge

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