[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/6] Mips: Move content of arch/mips/cpu to arch/mips/cpu/mips32

[Daniel Schwierzeck]

Hi Shinya,

On 03/12/2011 03:43 PM, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> On 3/9/11 10:16 PM, daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com wrote:
>> All current CPUs and SoCs are based on Mips32 arch. The complete
>
> Is that true? What about purple SoC? IIUC It's based on MIPS 5Kc
> and capable of 64-bit, which MIPS32 is 32-bit only architecture.

that was an assumption. I could not find any information about Purple.
This patch series is a suggestion. Maybe there are better approaches 
like arch/mips/cpu/{mips4k|mips5k|mips24k|...|octeon}.

>
>> code resides in the global arch/mips/cpu directory. This is not
>> suitable if other Mips architectures like Mips64 or Octeon should
>> be supported in the future.
>
> Just for the record.
>
> Personally, Octeon is sort of a special case. It's based on MIPS64
> architecture, and definitely a MIPS SoC, but not usual MIPS machine.
> As Aaron already mentioned before, we have very few files sharable
> with other MIPS machines even in the Linux kernel case. I think it
> will take long time the Octeon port gets merged to upstream, regard-
> less of my opinions, because they have a lot of things need to be
> resolved prior to Octeon itself.

My original intention was cleaning up the MIPS CPU directory as 
preparation to support new SoCs. I included this patch because Aaron 
asked for this separation some weeks ago but no one answered or commented ;)
However I posted this series to get some feedback if such a change is 
wanted or acceptable. If so I prepare a new patch series. At least I 
hope the SoC separation is acceptable.

Cheers,
Daniel