[PATCH v2 01/10] arm64: Use generic Layerscape SoC family naming & rename LS2085A to LS2080A

[Sharma Bhupesh]

> From: Stuart Yoder [mailto:b08248 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 1:55 AM
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Bhupesh Sharma
> <bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com> wrote:
> > Freescale will be a churning out a host of ARMv8 based SoCs which will
> > be based on a similar overall SoC architecture. So, this patch
> > converts the existing infrastructure in the arm64/dts, arm64/Kconfig
> > and arm64/configs to use the generic convention ARCH_LAYERSCAPE in
> > place of the more specific FSL_LS2085A, to save code duplication
> > later-on.
> >
> > Also Freescale is renaming LS2085A to LS2080A.
> >
> > This patch addresses the above two points.
> 
> Suggest splitting this into 2 patches because these 2 changes are really
> orthogonal-- one patch for the ARCH config name change, one for the
> rename ls2085a to ls2080a rename.

I was seeing the compilation breaking up at patch level if I did so.
Will try to see if this can be achieved without breaking up the compilation
for individual patches in v3.
 
> Not sure why you're describing it as "churning out a host of ARMv8 based
> SoCs".
> Just get to the point--  Layerscape is an SoC family so we're changing
> from the SoC specific ARCH kconfig option to a more general SoC family
> option.

The prologue is to describe that other ARMv8 SoCs with similar architecture
will be put-out, which will be part of the overall Layerscape family. 

Regards,
Bhupesh