Steps to submit a new arch/arm port

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 25 September 2015 17:28:54 Mason wrote:
> On 25/09/2015 16:11, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday 25 September 2015 15:35:36 Mason wrote:
> >>
> >> So 'default y' enables ARCH_TANGO4 only if ARCH_TANGOX is selected,
> >> right?
> > 
> > You should really only have one of the two.
> 
> I plan to add ARCH_TANGO5 in a few weeks. So I copied the layout used
> by Samsung for EXYNOSx and TI for OMAPx.
 
Better start simple, I wouldn't expect there to be too much code
that is specific to just one of them to warrant a top-level Kconfig
option like on OMAP.


> >> It will build, but it won't run! My port uses the TWD for clockevents,
> >> and smp_twd.c is only compiled if HAVE_ARM_TWD. So I must set SMP.
> > 
> > I think this has come up before and should be fixed. Could you
> > send a patch that allows using TWD in uniprocessor configurations?
> 
> This was discussed here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/389931/focus=15737
> 
> I can re-post the same patch.

Yes, please include that patch in the series.

	Arnd