[PATCH 1/4] ARM: SAMSUNG: Add support for detecting CPU at runtime

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Aug 20 04:07:59 EDT 2011


On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 02:05:56PM +0900, Kukjin Kim wrote:
> The cpu_is_[name]() can be used to distinguish cpu at runtime.

This really should be soc_is_xxx().  The CPU is stuff like ARM920, ARM926,
Cortex-A9 etc.  The SoC is the CPU plus the peripherals.

S3C6410 describes the entire SoC, not just the CPU.



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