On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:09:28PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > 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. Looking again I realize this was only discussed on the arm kernel mailing list and people involved was rmk, Harvaard and myself. This was not optimal - sorry. How much mips and arm solution differ I have not looked at closely. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
