[RFC PATCH] ARM: vt8500: Convert arch-vt8500 to multiplatform

[Tony Prisk]

On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 07:47 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 11 October 2012, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> > Does this imply that early printk won't be supported any longer, or am
> > I missing something?
> 
> You are correct. However, there is work under way to bring it back.
> If you want to keep it around in the meantime, you could let the user
> enable VT8500 either in MULTIPLATFORM or standalone using some Kconfig
> logic like:
> 
> choice "Platform selection"
> 
> ...
> 
> config VT8500_SINGLE
> 	bool "Via/Wondermedia VT8500 / WM8505 / WM8650"
> 
> ...
> 
> endchoice
> 
> ...
> 
> config VT8500
> 	bool "Via/Wondermedia VT8500 / WM8505 / WM8650" if ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
> 	default VT8500_SINGLE
> 
> 	Arnd

Alexey (or anyone else),

Do you want it kept in the meantime?

I think the easiest way to add/keep it would be to create:

ARCH_VT8500_SINGLE (arm/Kconfig) and ARCH_VT8500_MULTI
(arch-vt8500/Kconfig) and have them both select ARCH_VT8500 as an option
to make drivers available.

Regards
Tony P