Lpc2000

As usual, I'm gonna jump right out there and parade around my naivete
for the spectators...

So,  I got me an old LPC2106 board, and a brand-spankin-new 2148
board, and I've got examples from Keil, IAR, Embedded Artists,
Aoleous, WinARM, etc.  Most of them I've gotten to work.  However, I
have wound up with the world's ugliest stack of mistmatched lpcxyz.h
files, .ld files, makefiles, and the whole nine yards.  Every single
project does the same thing in terms of building, pretty much the same
startup, etc.  Even on stuff made origonally for GCC, there's still
about 99 ways to 'set up' a project (don't get me wrong, this is a
'good thing' in general), but I spend alot of time on cut & paste,
move this register definion to that header, etc.

Now I finally get to my question.  Any support for creating a
'standard' project.  I suspect that's one of the newbie's biggest
complaints.  And I've been around the block maybe once, and it's still
making me crazy.  Especially given how much similarity there is, even
with the commercial stuff, ala IAR & Keil in terms of headers, at
least.  So I'm volunteering to make a distribuition that would include
a peer-reviewed 'best-practices' type set for a raw project, including
a standard set of headers for each lpc now in existence, and make &
.ld.  Since IAR/Keil seems pretty header-friendly, I would even like
to make it compatible with them as well (though I don't know if their
project files that replace make & .ld are 'open').  Before everone
tells me that there's too much customization that *has* to be done,
let me say, I just want to make a 'standard' project that will work
for as many as possible.  Anytime you want to do something fun, you're
going to have to become an expert anyway.  But I haven't seen why I
can make 90% of the examples out there play nice by making a standard
project format to drop them into.  The PIC & AVR guys do it, I think
we should too.  <wink><After all, if we steal from their ranks,
philips will keep making more new lpc's for us to play with></wink>

So, is this a good idea, or no?  Nor do I know anything about a
preferred location, etc.  I'll do the headers, if people give me data
for the new stuff (i.e. 2103), and I have a makefile expert I can
probably do some arm twisting on.  So mostly I'm just asking if it
will be well recived, and if anyone will be willing to review it & try
it on their code.

Steve