On 11/17/2014 04:39 AM, Alexander Shiyan wrote: > Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:35:23 -0300 от Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi Alexander, >> >> On 10/21/2014 01:34 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote: >>> Hello all. >>> >>> We started developing device which uses NXP LPC43xx CPU. I would like to add >>> support for this CPU series into barebox. >>> The problem is that there is no support for this architecture in the Linux kernel, >>> and it would upset the current concept (the barebox tree is very similar to Linux >>> tree and we not have any orphan arch-s). >> >> I'm working on the upstream Linux port for LPC43xx SoCs. The obvious >> choice would be mach-lpc43xx. The problem is that LPC18xx are similar >> SoCs, and I think it would make sense to have them in the same mach-xxx. >> Haven't made up my mind on this issue, and I suspect we won't find out >> until we push some patches upstream. >> >> Anyway, if you make any progress with the barebox port, I'd be happy to >> take a look and help you test it. > > The kernel has existing mach-lpc32xx architecture. I think it would be appropriate > to rename it to mach-lpc and move the CPU-specific options in the local KConfig as first step. > LPC3xxx is ARMv5 based while LPC4xxx and LPC1xxx are ARMv7-M based. Moreover, the peripherals are completely different (I haven't been able to find anything useful to reuse so far). I'm not sure it makes sense to make them share the same mach-xxx. Anyway, we'll find out when we discuss this upstream. -- Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur www.vanguardiasur.com.ar _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
