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Subject: Re: [RaaA] Move SDL stuff to target tree

Re: [RaaA] Move SDL stuff to target tree

From: Frank Gevaerts <frank_at_gevaerts.be>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 22:00:00 +0200

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 03:41:49PM +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> So, as part of my gsoc project I would like move uisimulator/sdl/*.[ch]
> to the target tree. Specifically into a directory
> firmware/target/hosted/, as hosted would probably also contain files for
> other hosts, such as android, and also (directly under hosted/) files
> which are not dependant on the host very much, such as my pth thread
> implementation.
> This is a large part of the groundwork for an application framework.
>
> It would look like this (in firmware/target/hosted):
> sdl/charcell/lcd-charcell.c
> sdl/bitmap/lcd-bitmap.c
> sdl/bitmap/lcd-remote-bitmap.c
> sdl/lcd-sdl.c
> sdl/kernel-sdl.c
> sdl/timer-sdl.c (the current uisimulator/sdl/timer.c)
> sdl/pcm-sdl. (the current uisimulator/sdl/sound.c)
> sdl/button-sdl.c
> sdl/system-sdl.c (for initialization stuff)
>
> uisimulator/sdl/uisdl.c would be split up across the above files, for
> instance the initialization parts into system-sdl.c, the button parts to
> button-sdl.c etc.
>
> Additionally, part of sound.c goes as audio-sdl.c under
> firmware/drivers/audio/. Along with this work some SIMULATOR #ifdefs
> would be resovled as the simulator would behave more like a real target.
> BTW, the simulators would/should still work as before, with the
> exception that they're build using the SDL target.
>
> The above would be the first step. In a further step, I would like to
> split up button-sdl.c so that the simulator parts (particularly the
> keyboard-button maps for the simulated targets) into a plain button
> driver and into the simulator part into
> uisimulator/<target-name>/button.c. The UI-*.bmp files would also be in
> that folder.
>
>
> This is what I thought about so far. The groundwork wouldn't be finished
> with that but it's a pretty big step.
>
> What do you think about it? Do you have any ideas how my proposal could
> be improved? Or do you have any questions? Please join the discussion.

Sounds good to me

Frank

>
> Best regards.

-- 
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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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Received on 2010-05-08

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