Re: kbuild now support arch/$ARCH/include - time for ARCHs to convert

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 23:10:42 EST


On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 04:52:44AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:23:15PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > I just did the necessary changes for MIPS and the first testbuild is running
> > successfully so far.
> >
> > One of the ugly things in the MIPS makefiles is the use of platform-
> > specific headers in include/asm-mips/mach-* which contain platform specific
> > headers. Ideally those should be included through something like
> > <mach/somefile.h> or <plat/something.h> and I think a directory like
> > arch/$ARCH/$PLATFORM/include/plat/foobar.h could be a good place in the
> > new scheme? I assume other platforms have similar issues with subplatforms,
> > processor sub-architectures etc.?
>
> Hi Ralf.
>
> Did you follow what arm have planned?
> It looks like MIPS should do things in the same way so
> we get some consistency.
>
Where was this discussed? SH has the same issues obviously, but we've
already settled on a scheme.
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