[RFC PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: convert to multi-platform

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Mar 12 08:33:32 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 12 March 2013, Stephen Warren wrote:
> This allows BCM2835 be included in a kernel build that supports multiple
> SoCs at once, which is useful for distro kernels.
> 
> This change:
> * Moves bcm2835's debug-macro.S into ARM's include/debug/, and hooks it
>   into the relevant menu.
> * Moves bcm2835's Kconfig into its own directory, as seems typical for
>   multi-platform conversions.
> * Removes bcm2835_soc.h, and moves the content to the files where it was
>   used; just one usage per define.
> * Deletes some headers and Makefile.boot that aren't needed now that we
>   support multi-platform.

Nice work!

> TO DO:
> * It'd be nice to restore uncompress.h. I need to take a look at Shawn
>   Guo's patches related to this, and presumably rebase this on top of
>   them.

As Shawn said, that should not even be necessary.
 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>



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