[PATCH/RFC] ARM: shmobile: Introduce ARCH_RENESAS

Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com
Thu Nov 5 03:17:31 PST 2015


Hello.

On 11/5/2015 8:46 AM, Simon Horman wrote:

> The purpose of this patch is to start the process of replacing both
> ARCH_SHMOBILE and ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI with ARCH_RENESAS. The motivation
> being that as time has moved on Renesas has become a name than shmobile for
> the majority Renesas 32-bit ARM based SoCs.

    Couldn't parse this sentence. :-)

> The name is, conveniently, also
> applicable to (older) Renesas SH based SoCs and (newer) ARM64 based SoCs
> although this patch only addresses 32-bit ARM.
>
> It is envisaged that follow up work may address migrating both
> SH SoCs and drivers from ARCH_SHMOBILE and ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI to
> ARCH_RENESAS.
>
> Proposed support for the r8a7795 ARM64 based SoC already uses ARCH_RENESAS
> which selects ARCH_SHMOBILE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>

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MBR, Sergei




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