[U-Boot-Users] [Patch 10/17] U-Boot-V2:ARM:OMAP3: Add support for OMAP and Cortex A8

[Menon, Nishanth]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Desnogues [mailto:laurent.desnogues at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:23 AM
> To: Menon, Nishanth; u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net; Laurent Desnogues;
> dirk.behme at googlemail.com; philip.balister at gmail.com; Gopinath, Thara; Kamat, Nishant; Syed Mohammed,
> Khasim
> Subject: Re: [Patch 10/17] U-Boot-V2:ARM:OMAP3: Add support for OMAP and Cortex A8
> 
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > Is this really ARMCORTEX specific or arm v7 specific?
> 
> This is not Cortex A8 specific, it's v7-A (and hopefully will be the same
> in upcoming ARM architectures).
Probably ARM arch definitions need to be cleaned up a bit more? Granularity is restricted today to ARM CPU and not architecture..

> 
> > Anyway, this looks
> > like the start of another ifdef mess, we should create some generic hook
> > here.
> 
> You could perhaps mimic the way the Linux kernel handles cache stuff
> for the various ARM architectures.
Probably not the extent.. but yes to a lesser extent might be helpful. Common code will still exist, probably CP15 stuff can move out?

Regards,
Nishanth Menon