[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: mx6: move to a standard arch/board approach
Boris Brezillon
boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 4 13:50:42 CET 2015
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:43:59 -0300
Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Boris Brezillon
> <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Freescale boards are currently all defined in arch/arm/Kconfig, which
> > makes them hard to detect.
> > Moreover the MX6 SoC variant (Q, D, DL, S, SL) selection is currently
> > done via the SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS option which marked as deprecated.
> >
> > Move to a more standard way to select sub-architecture and board by
> > creating a Kconfig under arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx6 and a new ARCH_MX6
> > option.
> >
> > Existing MX6 board definitions should be moved in this new Kconfig in
> > choice menu, and new boards should be directly declared in this menu.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
>
> As this adds the board definitions, are you going to also send a patch
> to the existing boards?
>
If that's accepted, then yes I could help moving boards from the old
approach to the new one, though I was expecting this to be done by
board maintainers.
Note that I'm not breaking anything (the old boards definition are
still working).
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Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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