From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francesco VIRLINZI Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:35:58 +0000 Subject: Re: On "sh: Consolidate SH-Mobile CPU code in arch/sh/kernel/cpu/shmobile/." Message-Id: <49BF7D0E.9040200@st.com> List-Id: References: <49BF4B7C.2090607@st.com> In-Reply-To: <49BF4B7C.2090607@st.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Hi Paul, Magnus >> > While I don't have any real objections against the interpreter idea, this > is something you and Magnus will have to sort out. My expectation is that > this is something that will be gradually implemented and changed over > time, and we can certainly move code around whenever there is a need. For > now there are no non-shmobile parts that can use this code, so this is > the best place for it. > > As we move to a more generic implementation, the SH-Mobile bits will > likely be simplified quite a bit, but the extra abstraction still makes > sense, as it is a common characteristic for this family of parts. > What do you think if we begin with a collection of all the shared requirement/constraint and after that we write on top of that the code required? Regards Francesco