[PATCH v9 2/2] arm-soc: Add support for tango4 platforms

Marc Gonzalez marc_gonzalez at sigmadesigns.com
Thu Nov 19 09:24:50 PST 2015


Kevin Hilman wrote:

> Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> 
>> Add support for Sigma Designs ARM-based Tango4 "Secure Media Processor"
>> platforms (i.e. smp8734, smp8756, smp8758, smp8759) built around the
>> Cortex-A9 MPCore r3p0 (all dual-core, except the 8756).
>>
>> Support for older MIPS-based platforms can be found elsewhere:
>> https://github.com/mansr/linux-tangox
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez at sigmadesigns.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/Kconfig              |  2 ++
>>  arch/arm/Makefile             |  1 +
>>  arch/arm/mach-tangox/Kconfig  | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  arch/arm/mach-tangox/Makefile |  2 ++
>>  arch/arm/mach-tangox/setup.c  | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/arm/mach-tangox/smc.S    |  9 +++++++++
>>  arch/arm/mach-tangox/smc.h    |  5 +++++
> 
> Potential bike-shed fodder, but, a dumb question: is the family name
> actually "tangox" or is the "x" for the number (tango3, tango4, etc.)
> 
> Assuming it's the later based on usage throughout the patch, I think
> it'd be better to just use "tango" throughout instead of tangox.

I should just change tangox to tango everywhere?

This port supports tango4. I will submit a tango5 port in 2016.
Does that change anything?

> Also a MAINTAINERS file entry is appropriate for this new platform
> support (as scripts/checkpatch.pl should have told you.)

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll send a v10.
Are these the only issues in your opinion?

Regards.




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