ARM: at-91: ARCH_AT91SAM9X5 went missing

Nicolas Ferre nicolas.ferre at atmel.com
Wed Mar 13 08:30:59 EDT 2013


On 03/13/2013 12:22 PM, Paul Bolle :
> On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 12:12 +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>> These ARCH_AT91xxx variables are not used anymore for pure Device Tree
>> SoCs (I mean: at91sam9x5, at91sam9n12, sama5d3 families). They are used
>> for non-DT SoCs and for chips that support both legacy board files and DT.
>> The old ARCH_AT91xxx symbols are selecting the corresponding SOC_AT91xxx
>> symbol.
>>
>> ARCH_AT91xxx in Kconfig that are specific to a particular SoC are going
>> to disappear as we tend to allow the compilation of a particular driver
>> for a wider range of configurations.
> 
> So setting one of the SOC_* symbols will not generate the corresponding
> ARCH_* symbol, will it? To be specific, for the people entering the
> configuration from the new SOC_* side none of this is relevant anymore
> (this is all the stuff outside of arch/arm):
> 
> drivers/misc/Kconfig:87:        prompt "TC Block" if ARCH_AT91RM9200 || ARCH_AT91SAM9260 || CPU_AT32AP700X
> drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig:291:     depends on PCMCIA && ARCH_AT91RM9200
> drivers/rtc/Kconfig:977:        depends on ARCH_AT91 && !(ARCH_AT91RM9200 || ARCH_AT91X40)
> drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c:268:#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_AT91RM9200
> drivers/watchdog/Kconfig:127:   depends on ARCH_AT91 && !ARCH_AT91RM9200
> drivers/misc/Kconfig:87:        prompt "TC Block" if ARCH_AT91RM9200 || ARCH_AT91SAM9260 || CPU_AT32AP700X
> drivers/video/Kconfig:1026:     depends on FB_ATMEL && ARCH_AT91SAM9261
> drivers/net/can/Kconfig:68:     depends on ARCH_AT91SAM9263 || ARCH_AT91SAM9X5
> drivers/rtc/Kconfig:991:        prompt "RTT module Number" if ARCH_AT91SAM9263
> drivers/rtc/Kconfig:1000:       range 0 3 if !ARCH_AT91SAM9263
> drivers/rtc/Kconfig:1001:       range 0 15 if ARCH_AT91SAM9263
> drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:157: depends on AVR32 || ARCH_AT91SAM9RL || ARCH_AT91SAM9G45
> drivers/usb/gadget/atmel_usba_udc.c:329:#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_AT91SAM9RL)
> drivers/usb/gadget/atmel_usba_udc.c:349:#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_AT91SAM9RL */
> drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig:305:   depends on MMC_ATMELMCI && (AVR32 || ARCH_AT91SAM9G45) && DMA_ENGINE
> drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig:157: depends on AVR32 || ARCH_AT91SAM9RL || ARCH_AT91SAM9G45
> drivers/net/can/Kconfig:68:     depends on ARCH_AT91SAM9263 || ARCH_AT91SAM9X5

They are being removed one by one and replaced by ARCH_AT91, ARM or even
simply HAVE_CLK...

Have a look at recent patch "[PATCH v2 2/2] can: Kconfig: CAN_AT91
depends on ARM".

But it is true that if you find good patches to remove them, I am in
favor for this move.

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre



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