[PATCH] mach-bcm: clean up config and build targets
Paul Bolle
pebolle at tiscali.nl
Thu Apr 3 13:49:19 PDT 2014
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 15:30 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> Currently CONFIG_ARCH_BCM_MOBILE is used to select all Broadcom
> mobile SoCs. Instead, use that only as a config menu switch, and
> define specific symbols like CONFIG_ARCH_BCM_281XX to select a
> particular SoC family. If ARCH_BCM_MOBILE is selected, all of the
> SoCs will be selected by default, but this way each can be disabled
> individually as well.
>
> This allows more precision in controlling what gets built under
> mach-bcm. Another benefit to doing this is that it makes it obvious
> that the code that implements SMC calls to control L2 cache is only
> used for BCM281XX (for example).
>
> Also use Kbuild's $(<modulename>-y) variable mechanism to build a
> single object file containing everything used for the bcm281xx board
> in arch/arm/mach-bcm.
>
> Note: This patch is based on the current arm-soc/for-next branch:
> e98cd72 arm-soc: document samsung merges
>
> The patch is available here:
> http://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/broadcom/kernel.git
> Branch review/mach-bcm-cleanup
It seems the last two paragraphs should actually be below the "---"
marker. There's no need to include them in the commit explanation, is
there?
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
> ---
Paul Bolle
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