Hi

I'm trying to add Zephyr support for a board [1] where the 'SoC' is an
FPGA that can be programmed with a dozen different CPU types and varying
support IP, and I'm wondering how to organise this.

[1] https://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile-express/cortex-m-prototyping-system.php

It seems to me that 'BOARD' is what the build system expects to use to
specify the thing to build, but adding a dozen new boards under /boards
(one for each 'SoC') doesn't seem the right way to go - and I would then
need somewhere to put the common code for the physical board.

I'm going to be in a similar situation for creating my dozen or so SoC's
but I believe that the build system may be a bit more flexible in that
situation, with SOC_FAMILY and SOC_SERIES.

As well as the hardware board there is a host of software simulations
[2] for similar but differing configurations as the hardware. I don't
believe that adds any extra complexity though, apart from the number of
ever expanding versions and them not being definitively identified by
name or number. Oh joy...

[2] https://developer.arm.com/docs/dui0837/latest/programming-reference-for-mps2-fvps/mps2-about

Thanks for any advice.

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Tixy