[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 01/10] ARM: Rename arch/arm/cpu/arm_cortexa8 to armv7

Grazvydas Ignotas notasas at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 13:53:30 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Steve Sakoman <steve at sakoman.com> wrote:
> The purpose of this patch is to prepare for adding the OMAP4 architecture, which is Cortex A9
>
> Cortex A8 and A9 both belong to the armv7 architecture, hence the name change.
>
> The two architectures are similar enough that substantial code can be shared.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh V <aneesh at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve at sakoman.com>
> ---

<snip>

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7a13d28..b9c6af2 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
>
>  Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at gmail.com>
>
> -       omap3_beagle    ARM CORTEX-A8 (OMAP3530 SoC)
> +       omap3_beagle    ARM ARMV7 (OMAP3530 SoC)

hm, do we really need to rename these? The heading above states:
# ARM Systems:
#
# Maintainer Name, Email Address
#       Board           CPU

ARMV7 is a name of the ISA, not CPU..


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