Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Monday 03 October 2011 21:40:36 Kukjin Kim wrote: > > Yes, absolutely. As I said, the 'mach-exynos' can support upcoming > > Samsung EXYNOS SoCs and the way is better than making mach-exynos5. > > > > My bigger plan is finally to make current directories to 3 mach- dir. > > (mach-s3c, mach-s5p, and mach-exynos) and 1 plat-samsung directory. Of > > course, the mach- directories can be reduced later. > > > > Firstly, as you can see, I'm merging plat-s3c24xx and plat-s5p into one > > plat-samsung directory and actually the <plat/*.h> files and dev-*.c > > files have been moved into plat-samsung. Maybe I can finish it during > > 3.2-rc. > > Ok, sounds good. So for my understanding: is s5p a completely separate > line from exynos, or are they more of an evolutionary succession where > you draw the line between the last uniprocessor and the first SMP > chip? > As you know, Samsung has announced 'EXYNOS' as a new Samsung SoC name then we have used it. Frankly, I'm not sure the name of 'S5P' will be used later or not. If any updates let you know. > > Secondary, upcoming Samsung EXYNOS SoCs will be supported in mach-exynos > > directory and this patch is required to that. For example, the EXYNOS5 > > SoCs (Cortex A15) will be supported in that with other EXYNOS4 SoCs soon > > and of course it reduces code duplication > > My feeling is that it would be nicer to just add exynos5 to the mach- exynos4 > directory for now, in the same way that omap3/4/5 are in the mach-omap2 > directory. We can do a big rename later once the reorganization of code > within those directories that you explained above is complete. > > If you still want to do the big rename right now, I would suggest doing > it at the end of the 3.2 merge window, so that all other patches that > might need to touch the mach-exynos4 directory can go in first. > Thanks for your suggestion. OK, I will and it will be sent to upstream via arm-soc at the end of the 3.2 merge window. Thanks. Best regards, Kgene. -- Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Senior Engineer, SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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