From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 07:57:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/02] mach-shmobile: Emma Mobile EV2 - first shot Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20120503144645.6390.62303.sendpatchset@w520> <201205050722.45500.arnd@arndb.de> <201205052108.03001.rjw@sisk.pl> <201205051921.13209.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201205051921.13209.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 05 May 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> Now, if you insist on us having a separate mach- directory for every platform >> (SoC), we can do that I think, but then we should start with splitting up the >> existing mach-shmobile into a number of SoC-specific directories rather than >> adding new mach- directories for random new parts, because that goes against >> our development history to date, which is important too IMHO. > > All the chips in there so far share a common ancestry and they all use a > significant subset of the same drivers shared with arch/sh: i2c-sh_mobile, > sh-dma-engine, sh_cmt, sh-sci, sh_tmu, intc, pfc and sh_clk. AFAICT, this one > uses none of those and apparently was developed by NEC before the merger with > Renesas. Ah, I didn't know NEC joined Renesas, but Wikipedia proves you're right. So, any similarities with the MIPS-based NEC EMMA SOCs, i.e. more code to share? Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds