[PATCH RESEND 1/3] arm64: add THUNDER2 processor family

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 06:37:39PM +0000, Jayachandran C wrote:
>> Add support for ThunderX2 CN99XX arm64 server processors.
>>
>> Introduce a new arm64 platform config option ARCH_THUNDER2 for these
>> processors. Add device tree files boot/dts/cavium/thunder-99xx.dtsi for
>> on-chip devices and boot/dts/cavium/thunder-99xx.dts for the evaluation
>> board.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jnair at caviumnetworks.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms                 |   7 ++
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/Makefile          |   1 +
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/thunder-99xx.dts  |  34 +++++++
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/thunder-99xx.dtsi | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> This is basically identical to vulcan.dtsi. Do we really need both in the
> tree?

Hmm, an alternative would be to add the new .dtsi file and start out with an
#include of the existing file, with overrides for anything that needs changing.
Similarly, the Kconfig symbol could just 'select ARCH_VULCAN' for now.

     Arnd