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

Daniel Schwierzeck daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 14 13:15:16 CET 2011


Hello Wolfgang,

2011/3/13 Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>:
> Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,
>
> In message <4D7C147A.5060501 at gmail.com> you 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}.
>
> Purple is (better: was) indeed a 64 bit system.
>
> OTOH, the purple board has not been actively maintained for several
> years, and I'm not aware of anybody who still has access to the
> hardware.  If it should cause trouble, it would probably most
> appropriate to drop the purple support.
>

shall I include an additional patch that drops Purple support and do you agree
to the refactoring of the CPU directory itself?

Best regards,
Daniel


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