From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750788AbWDTKhl (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:37:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750799AbWDTKhk (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:37:40 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:62427 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750788AbWDTKhk (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:37:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4447646E.2080008@schweigstill.de> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:37:34 +0200 From: Andreas Schweigstill User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: rename arch/arm/mach-s3c2410 to arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx References: <20060418165204.GG2516@trinity.fluff.org> <4446187C.2090603@andric.com> <20060419150527.GA4102@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060419150527.GA4102@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:5debdc4a9e8758a8924affe92d8d9587 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Russell! Russell King schrieb: > Folk convinced me that the only thing which we should call "architecture" > is the CPU - so things like "PPC", "ARM", "i386" are architectures, and > not implementations of these (AT91RM9200, S3C2410). And if we use ARM nomenclature there is also a difference between the architecture (e.g. v4, v4t, v5, ...) and the implementation (ARM7, ARM7T, ARM9T, Amulet, StrongARM, Xscale, ...) of the CPU core. So we have to distinguish between the core and the SoC/ASSP architecture. The register model is defined by the core architecture but the co-processors (MMU, CP15) by the implementation. And should we handle OMAP as a standard ARM9/10/11 implementation or another core? And should StrongARM be inherited from v4 or ARM8? Does it make sense to reflect this also in the directory naming conventions? Hmmm, I am not sure. We could end with the complete ARM company's history. With best regards Andreas Schweigstill -- Dipl.-Phys. Andreas Schweigstill Schweigstill IT | Embedded Systems Schauenburgerstraße 116, D-24118 Kiel, Germany Phone: (+49) 431 5606-435, Fax: (+49) 431 5606-436 Mobile: (+49) 171 6921973, Web: http://www.schweigstill.de/