A 16-bit device number or id further distinguishes a device on the
system in addition to the device type. This is meant to be used for
the very first identification of the device for further probing. Any
further info is available by userspace mapping and probing.
By moving shelve retrieval details to configuration_retrieve()
into configuration.py, the top-level SConstruct can now get full
configuration object from shelve.
Created a config directory for configuration files.
Moved all absolute path variables to a projpaths.py file
All scripts can now universally learn absolute paths via projpaths.py
Moved the config_symbols class to the configuration.py file.
Moved libs to loader since they are only referred by the loader
