[U-Boot] Best way of making some drivers common across kirkwood and orion5x SoCs?

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert ARIBAUD [mailto:albert.aribaud at free.fr] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:27 AM
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Ashish Karkare; Prabhanjan Sarnaik
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Best way of making some drivers common 
> across kirkwood and orion5x SoCs?
> 
> Hi PRafulla,
> 
> Prafulla Wadaskar a écrit :
> 
>  > 1. For SOC support Orion should be implemented similar to Kirkwood
>  > (you agreed on this)
> 
> I still do. :)
> 
>  > 2. For common drivers for (ex: kirkwood_egiga.c) the 
> common code must
>  > be abstracted to egiga_core.c and architecture specific 
> code must be
>  > supported through kirkwood_egiga.c/h and orion_egiga.c/h, 
> this way it
>  > would make it more clean and structured.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>  > What is your opinion with #2 suggestion?
> 
> Sounds fine! I'll start submitting patches for both common 
> drivers and 
> orion support based on this proposal.
> 
> Regarding the arch-specific parts of current driver code, should they 
> end up in cpu/arm926ejs/{kirkwood,orion5x} or stay in 
> drivers/*? I tend 
> like cpu/arm926ejs/* better as it puts everything arch-specific in a 
> single place.

I agree for this. Good luck :-)

Regards...
Prafulla . . .

> 
> Amicalement,
> -- 
> Albert.
>