[PATCH 00/02] mach-shmobile: Emma Mobile EV2 - first shot

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Sat May 5 15:30:20 EDT 2012


On Saturday, May 05, 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Now, if you insist on us having a separate mach- directory for every platform
> > (SoC), we can do that I think, but then we should start with splitting up the
> > existing mach-shmobile into a number of SoC-specific directories rather than
> > adding new mach- directories for random new parts, because that goes against
> > our development history to date, which is important too IMHO.
> 
> All the chips in there so far share a common ancestry and they all use a
> significant subset of the same drivers shared with arch/sh: i2c-sh_mobile,
> sh-dma-engine, sh_cmt, sh-sci, sh_tmu, intc, pfc and sh_clk. AFAICT, this one
> uses none of those and apparently was developed by NEC before the merger with
> Renesas.

I see.  So your opinion is that it may have more in common with the other
ARM-based platforms?

Rafael



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