[PATCH/RFC] ARM: shmobile: Introduce ARCH_RENESAS

[horms@verge.net.au (Simon Horman)]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 02:17:31PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 11/5/2015 8:46 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> >The purpose of this patch is to start the process of replacing both
> >ARCH_SHMOBILE and ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI with ARCH_RENESAS. The motivation
> >being that as time has moved on Renesas has become a name than shmobile for
> >the majority Renesas 32-bit ARM based SoCs.
> 
>    Couldn't parse this sentence. :-)

RENESAS seems to be a more appropriate name that SHMOBILE for the
majority of Renesas 32-bit ARM based SoCs.

> >The name is, conveniently, also
> >applicable to (older) Renesas SH based SoCs and (newer) ARM64 based SoCs
> >although this patch only addresses 32-bit ARM.
> >
> >It is envisaged that follow up work may address migrating both
> >SH SoCs and drivers from ARCH_SHMOBILE and ARCH_SHMOBILE_MULTI to
> >ARCH_RENESAS.
> >
> >Proposed support for the r8a7795 ARM64 based SoC already uses ARCH_RENESAS
> >which selects ARCH_SHMOBILE.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
> 
> [...]
> 
> MBR, Sergei
>