[GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Apr 1 13:44:59 EDT 2011


On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:50:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> > On 04/01/11 16:59, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Friday 01 April 2011, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> > >> On 04/01/11 15:54, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >
> > >>> 9. All interesting work is going into a handful of platforms, all of which
> > >>>      are ARMv7 based.
> > >> Define interesting.
> > >
> > > The ones that are causing the churn that we're talking about.
> > > Platforms that have been working forever and only need to get
> > > the occasional bug fix are boring, i.e. not the problem.
> > In the ARM tree I only know mach-at91.
> > Atmel still introduces new SOCs based on ARM926EJ-S, and that makes
> > perfect sense for lots of applications.
> 
> I thought new ones were generally Cortex-M3 based. Either way, even
> if there are exceptions, focusing on ARMv7 at first should give
> a good representation of the new development.

If they're M3 then they're a microcontroller, and so would be using uclinux.



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