[PATCH v2] Add support for generic BCM SoC chipsets

[Christian Daudt]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Florian Fainelli <florian at openwrt.org>wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> On Sunday 11 November 2012 06:57:14 Christian Daudt wrote:
> > In order to start upstreaming Broadcom SoC support, create
> > a starting hierarchy, arch and dts files.
> > The first support SoC family that is planned is the
> > BCM281XX (BCM28145/28150/28155/28160) family of dual A9 mobile SoC cores
> > This code is just the skeleton code for get the machine upstreamed. It
> > has been made MULTIPLATFORM compatible.
> > Next steps
> > ----------
> > Upstream a basic set of drivers - sufficient for a console boot to
> > ramdisk. These will includer timer, gpio, i2c drivers.
> > After this basic set, we will proceed with a more comprehensive set
> > of drivers for the 281XX SoC family.
>
> Would not it make more sense to use mach-bcm281xx as a directory name
> instead
> of mach-bcm which sounds a tad too generic? This would also make it
> consistent
> with Domenico's mach-bcm47xx and the existing bcm47xx and bcm63xx
> MIPS-based
> SoC support.
>

I'm following the other mobile ARM SoCs which all have a single mach-
directory for various families of chips (mach-tegra, mach-omap2, etc...).
Plus the intent is to have a single set of mach files that works across bcm
SoCs, so it is preferable to keep it in a single mach-bcm.

 thanks,
  csd



> --
> Florian
>
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