> The traditional location of the arch specific Makefiles
> has been at:
>
> include/asm-$ARCH
>
> But as suggested by several people over time and lately
> by Linus in the following post:
>
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/21/1903924
>
> is is suggested to move the arch specific files under arch/
> and for the header files this is arch/$ARCH/include.
>
> So I have hacked up support for this in kbuild so
> for the simpler cases a simple move of header files as
> in:
> git mv include/asm-$ARCH arch/$ARCH/include/asm
>
> is enough.
>
> If Linus will accept it then I think -rc1 is a perfect
> time to do it as people has less stuff pending touching
> the header files that are moved.
> Validation is easy - does the usual configs build?
>
> For the archs that plays games with symlinks this is a
> splendid opportunity to get rid af these.
> The receipe is simple:
> Use
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Iarch/$ARCH/include/$CPU
>
> to select the CPU and then do a copy of the header files
> like this:
>
> git mv include/asm-$ARCH/$CPU arch/$ARCH/include/$CPU/cpu
>
> Then the code can continue to use:
>
> #include <cpu/foo.h>
>
> I already converted sparc to use arch/sparc/include -
> while I merged the header files for sparc and sparc64.
> This change is already upstream.
>
> And for SH I posted a receipe which you can read here:
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/28/83
>
> It is SH specific but anyway pretty generic.
>
> I am limited in time and resources at the moment but I
> would be glad to help out as time permits should there
> be any questions.
