[PATCH 1/4] ARM: SAMSUNG: Add support for detecting CPU at runtime
Kukjin Kim
kgene.kim at samsung.com
Mon Aug 22 21:50:21 EDT 2011
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>
> 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.
OK and will address comments from you.
Russell, I'm not sure it is required to change CPU_XXX such as
CPU_EXYNOS4210 to SOC_XXX in Kconfig.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Kgene.
--
Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>, Senior Engineer,
SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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