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

[Alex Nemirovsky]

Sounds good Tom. We will send the next series with the ARMv8 low_level.S moved to arch/mach-caxxxx/
Thanks for you guidance.  Did you see anything else in 2nd series that needs modified before we send 
series 3 or can we assume those are fine to avoid sending another series after this issues is fixed in series 3?

> On Jan 24, 2020, at 10:30 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> 
> 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