[RESEND PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: am33xx: Make am33xx as a separate class

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Jul 5 11:27:43 EDT 2012


* Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [120704 01:20]:
> * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [120704 00:29]:
> > * Vaibhav Hiremath <hvaibhav at ti.com> [120703 06:12]:
> > > Initially, we decided to make am33xx family of device to fall
> > > under omap3 class (cpu_is_omap34xx() = true), since it carries
> > > Cortex-A8 core. But while adding complete baseport support
> > > (like, clock, power and hwmod) support, it is observed that,
> > > we are creating more and more problems by treating am33xx device
> > > as omap3 family, as nothing matches between them
> > > (except cortex-A8 mpu).
> > > 
> > > So,  after long discussion we have came to the conclusion that,
> > > we should not consider am33xx device as omap3 family, instead
> > > create separate class (SOC_AM33XX) under OMAP2PLUS.
> > > This means, for am33xx device, cpu_is_omap34xx() will return false,
> > > and only cpu_is_am33xx() will be true.
> > 
> > Thanks applying both.
> 
> I believe all your patches are now applied. I've pushed them out
> into devel-am33xx-part2 branch. Can you please check and send
> additional patches as needed?

I ended up moving some patches into cleanup-part2 branch as omap5
patches also need those. So the new branch for am33xx is called
devel-am33xx-data at commit 79ab2664. The old devel-am33xx-part2
branch should be ignored now.

Regards,

Tony



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