[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] arm: Remove unregister MACH_TYPE_xxx uses

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Jan 11 02:22:56 CET 2017


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:14:32PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 01/10/2017 03:22 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >Before we can sync with the latest mach-types.h file from the Linux
> >Kernel we need to remove some instances of MACH_TYPE_xxx from our
> >sources.  As these values have been removed from the canonical upstream
> >source we should not be using them either, so drop.
> 
> The Tegra and RPi changes only affect non-DT booting, right?

Correct.  MACH_TYPE_xxx is only used for ATAG booting.

> It would be nice if the Tegra config headers could be kept
> consistent, i.e. delete all places that define CONFIG_MACH_TYPE from
> all Tegra config headers, rather than just removing a few. Perhaps
> it even makes sense to do that source-tree-wide, at least for ARM
> boards?

I leave the decision to remove MACH_TYPE_xxx up to the SoC custodians.
I know that for example for TI parts we do not want to as people are
using RTOSes that do use ATAGS still.

-- 
Tom
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