[PATCH v2] Add support for generic BCM SoC chipsets

[Domenico Andreoli]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:53:36AM -0800, Christian Daudt wrote:
> On 12-11-12 09:15 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
...
> >I don't really have too strong of a preference. If the eventual intent
> >is for the directory to host all ARM Broadcom SoCs, then mach-bcm seems
> >reasonable.
> >
> Ok, sounds like sticking to mach-bcm has sufficient acks. What I was
> thinking of doing is, once mach-bcm had been introduced, to propose
> to pull in the 476x and 2835 into also, to do some consolidation.
> And have the separate files can keep separate owners - we'd just
> have Kconfig + Makefile shared most likely.

ok also for me

>  Or not. Ultimately I don't mind keeping 2835 and 476x as separate
> mach- either. Those are v6 SoCs, and at this point I have no plans
> on working on mobile v6 SoCs, only v7 onwards. So we can also say
> that mach-bcm is for v7+ SoCs and v6 SoCs keep their existing mach-
> dirs for now.

bcm476x is a non-existent directory yet so I'll be happy to switch to
mach-bcm at the next round (*).

thanks,
Domenico

(*) I'm a bit late with it because I've been distracted by a crazy way
to track kernel regressions I'm hacking on.  it's an experiment to test
a few ideas: http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/kbts/. early comments
are very welcome.