[PATCH-RFT 2/2] pinctrl: samsung: Split Exynos drivers per ARMv7 and ARMv8
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzk at kernel.org
Wed May 17 08:48:13 PDT 2017
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 07:43:51AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
> On 2017-05-16 22:06, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Exynos pinctrl drivers contain pretty big per-SoC data structures. The
> > pinctrl-exynos object file contained code and data for both ARMv7 and
> > ARMv8 SoCs thus it grew big. There will not be a shared image between
> > ARMv7 and ARMv8 so there is no need to combine all of this into one
> > driver.
> >
> > Splitting the data allows to make it more granular (e.g. code related to
> > ARMv8 Exynos is self-contained), slightly speed up the compilation and
> > reduce the effective size of compiled kernel.
> >
> > The common data structures and functions reside still in existing
> > pinctrl-exynos.c. Only the SoC-specific parts were moved out to new
> > files. Except marking few functions non-static and adding them to
> > header, there were no functional changes in the code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Not tested on ARMv8 (Exynos5433, Exynos7).
>
> Works fine on TM2 (Exynos5433).
>
> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Great, thanks! Much appreciated.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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