[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3 v4] arm: A320: Add support for Faraday A320 evaluation board

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue Aug 4 21:48:31 CEST 2009


On 09:42 Mon 03 Aug     , Darius Augulis wrote:
> On 07/08/2009 02:30 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> >On 15:14 Fri 03 Jul     , Po-Yu Chuang wrote:
> >>This patch adds support for A320 development board from Faraday. This board
> >>uses FA526 processor by default and has 512kB and 32MB NOR flash, 64M RAM.
> >>FA526 is an ARMv4 processor and uses the ARM920T source in this patch.
> >>
> >as I understand correctly the faraday and the CS3518 share the same core and
> >IP so it will be better to have the same dir
> 
> I don't think so. Both A320 and Gemini share the same FA526 core,
> but different peripheral. There is no reason to create generic dir
> for A320 and Gemini. Also, no reason to create cpu/fa526 because
> fa526 is almost arm920t.
duplicate code is worse
as example on at91 we do support multiple soc of the family in the same
generic dir which allow us to factorize common code and ofcourse split
soc specific code too

Best Regards,
J.


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