Re: [PATCH 00/02] mach-shmobile: Emma Mobile EV2 - first shot

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri May 04 2012 - 17:12:11 EST


On Friday, May 04, 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2012, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > mach-shmobile: Emma Mobile EV2 - first shot
> >
> > [PATCH 01/02] mach-shmobile: Emma Mobile EV2 SoC base support
> > [PATCH 02/02] mach-shmobile: KZM9D board prototype support
> >
> > This series adds experimental Emma Mobile EV2 support to
> > mach-shmobile. Yet another dual core Cortex-A9 SoC.
> >
> > At this point only serial and timer is supported. Future work
> > includes GPIO, network device, SMP and DT support. If possible
> > it would be nice to use the common clocks on this platform.
> >
> > To boot this on actual hardware you also need the following:
> > "[PATCH] serial8250-em: Emma Mobile UART driver V2"
> > "[PATCH] clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver"
> >
> > Any reason to not put this in mach-shmobile?
>
> Well, from all I can tell it shares basically zero code with the
> rest of mach-shmobile, so I would be more comfortable with creating
> a new mach-emma directory for this.

I'm not sure if I understand your point correctly, so please let me clarify.

Do you think it's better to have a separate mach-emma directory for the
new hardware because technically it is a different platform and the fact
that it was developed by the same manufacturer as the mach-shmobile hardware
is less important?

Rafael
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