[PATCH v2 0/7] Add Cortina Access basic DM drivers

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 05:55:29PM +0000, Alex Nemirovsky wrote:
> Looking inside
> grep -h CA board/cortina/common/armv8/lowlevel_init.S
> #if defined(CONFIG_SOC_CA7774)
> #if defined(CONFIG_SOC_CA8277B)
> 
> as we understand it, the alternative would lead to maintaining duplicate but slightly different code for each ARM based SoC in
> arch/arm/mach-ca7774
> arch/arm/mach-ca8277B
> arch/arm/mach-ca7742
> arch/arm/mach-ca8279
> arch/arm/mach-caXnnn
> 
> correct?  or should we simply create a arch/arm/mach-caxxxx, arch/mips/mach-caxxxx,  arch/xtensa/mach-axxxx, arch/riscv/mach-caxxxx, etc to maintain similar
> changes to each arch related custom code which varies slightly for each SoC variation within each architecture?
> What’s best to avoid maintaining duplicate code across SoC variations within the same ISA family?

I would hope we can get by with arch/arm/mach-caxxxx or so and
board/cortina/common/.  How are you handling common code in the linux
kernel?

-- 
Tom
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