[PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: mx5: introduce SOC_IMX51

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Dec 8 05:49:43 EST 2010


On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 06:32:01PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:
> Hi Fabio and Uwe,
> 
> Why do we have both ARCH_MX51 and SOC_IMX51? It looks redundant.
> Will ARCH_MX51 be removed after all other places are replace by SOC_IMX51?
yes
 
> I don't need to define ARCH_MX50 any more, correct?
The motivation for SOC_... is described in arch/arm/mach-mx3/Kconfig[1].
So if you have multi-soc kernels in mind when using SOC_IMX50 not adding
ARCH_MX50 is fine (and prefered).

Best regards
UWe

[1]
http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=imx/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/mach-mx3/Kconfig;hb=imx-for-2.6.38

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