New SoC - where does it go?

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Mon Aug 24 13:43:01 EDT 2009


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Jason McMullan wrote:

> I'm working on a Linux port for our new SoC, and I'm wondering where
> everything should go.
> 
> We're using an ARM MP11 core, and I currently have everything
> (SoC support and board config) in the same mach-FOO directory.
> 
> Should I split this into a plat-FOO and a mach-FOO, and if so,
> what should go where?

If you don't see a reason for such a split then just don't do it.
The plat-foo directory is used only when some code can be shared between 
otherwise incompatible SOCs.


Nicolas



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