[PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Tue Oct 29 13:39:45 EDT 2013


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Walker <dwalker at fifo99.com> wrote:

> Personally I think splitting mach- stuff isn't very useful or
> interesting.. There's just no technical reason for it, for example x86
> and x86_64 was a win from my perspective , there's a lot more reason to
> keep similar things together than to split things up.

There are definitely valid technical reasons for it; the old and new
platforms share no code, and the legacy platforms are unlikely to be
updated to modern infrastructure anytime soon. Other platforms are
managed in similar manners, such as OMAP, imx/mxs, etc.


-Olof



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