[PATCH v3 2/5] ARM: bcm4760: Add platform infrastructure

Christian Daudt csd at broadcom.com
Fri Sep 13 19:16:44 EDT 2013


On 13-09-10 09:16 AM, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:58:58PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Christian Daudt <csd at broadcom.com> wrote:
>>> On 13-08-30 12:53 AM, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>>>>>> Index: b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
>>>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
>>>>>> @@ -17,3 +17,10 @@ config ARCH_BCM
>>>>>>            It currently supports the 'BCM281XX' family, which includes
>>>>>>            BCM11130, BCM11140, BCM11351, BCM28145 and
>>>>>>            BCM28155 variants.
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +config ARCH_BCM4760
>>>>>> +       bool "Broadcom BCM4760 based SoCs (ARM11)" if ARCH_MULTI_V6
>>>>>> +       select ARM_AMBA
>>>>>> +       select ARM_VIC
>>>>>> +       select CLKSRC_OF
>>>>>> +       select SOC_BUS
>>>>> So I think I mentioned this during previous discussions, but I think this
>>>>> should be solved by having:
>>>>>
>>>>> config ARCH_BCM
>>>>>          bool "Broadcom platforms"
>>>>>          help
>>>>>            This enables support for Broadcom based systems
>>>>>
>>>>> menu "Broadcom platform selection"
>>>>>          depends on ARCH_BCM
>>>>>
>>>>> config ARCH_BCM281XX
>>>>>          ... current ARCH_BCM contents
>>>>>
>>>>> config ARCH_BCM4760
>>>>>          ... above conents
>>>>> endmenu
>>>> got it.
>>>>
>>>> need to sync with Christian, the current owner of ARCH_BCM.
>>> This is fine, but it is better to name it MOBILEBCM instead for our
>>> platform, as it plan to keep it single zImage. My plan was to switch the
>>> current usage of ARCH_BCM for chips to ARCH_MOBILEBCM, and then leave
>>> ARCH_BCM as a generic BCM menu option as above. I can send a patch to that
>>> effect if everyone is okay with that.
>> Sounds good. Let's do that for 2.13.
> Christian, can I assume you will prepare a patch to rename ARCH_BCM or do
> you prefer I include it my series, maybe simplifying the merge of it? I'm
> fine with both.
>
> Regards,
> Domenico
>
Yes. I have a patch going through internal review, I'll post it early 
next week.
  thanks,
    csd





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