From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: florian@openwrt.org (Florian Fainelli) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:53:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2] Add support for generic BCM SoC chipsets In-Reply-To: <1352645834-10173-1-git-send-email-csd@broadcom.com> References: <1352645834-10173-1-git-send-email-csd@broadcom.com> Message-ID: <12188358.5I1Xcz160E@bender> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Christian, On Sunday 11 November 2012 06:57:14 Christian Daudt wrote: > In order to start upstreaming Broadcom SoC support, create > a starting hierarchy, arch and dts files. > The first support SoC family that is planned is the > BCM281XX (BCM28145/28150/28155/28160) family of dual A9 mobile SoC cores > This code is just the skeleton code for get the machine upstreamed. It > has been made MULTIPLATFORM compatible. > Next steps > ---------- > Upstream a basic set of drivers - sufficient for a console boot to > ramdisk. These will includer timer, gpio, i2c drivers. > After this basic set, we will proceed with a more comprehensive set > of drivers for the 281XX SoC family. Would not it make more sense to use mach-bcm281xx as a directory name instead of mach-bcm which sounds a tad too generic? This would also make it consistent with Domenico's mach-bcm47xx and the existing bcm47xx and bcm63xx MIPS-based SoC support. -- Florian