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

Steve Sakoman sakoman at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 15:01:57 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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..

I don't really care one way or the other -- each entry adds the
precise SOC part number in parens, so there is all the detail anyone
would need.

I changed the entries on the off chance that someone looking at this
file would then go looking for a cortex-a8 subdirectory in
arch/arm/cpu.

I am willing to follow whatever the consensus is for v3 of the patch set.

Steve


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