[PATCH v1 1/7] RISC-V: introduce ARCH_FOO kconfig aliases for SOC_FOO symbols

[Damien Le Moal]

On 1/11/23 07:34, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 07:22:47AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> By the way, I recall some pushback with the renaming of SOC_XXX to
>> ARCH_XXX. I personally do not like it and Christoph suggested the revers
>> approach of renaming arm ARCH_XXX to something else instead. I did not
>> follow further on that discussion, but it looks like the riscv SOC_XXX
>> renaming went through ?
> 
> We asked the ARM guys about it, I think on IRC as they'd not replied to
> the thread, and cold water was poured on the idea.

That is really too bad. Naming something ARCH_XXX that is not a CPU
architecture is simply very confusing I think.

> It's Murphy's Law that the thing with the problem would be the k210 too
> isn't it.
> I could've sworn I booted one of each vendor so kinda kicking myself
> right now.

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research