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From:   Loys Ollivier <lollivier@baylibre.com>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
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        Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arch: riscv: add support for building DTB files from DT source data
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On Thu 06 Jun 2019 at 22:12, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Loys Ollivier wrote:
>
>> Always build it ?
>> Any particular reason to drop ARCH_SIFIVE ?
>
> Palmer had some reservations about it, so I dropped it for now.  But then 
> as I was thinking about it, I remembered that I also had some reservations 
> about it, years ago: that everyone should use CONFIG_SOC_* for this, 
> rather than CONFIG_ARCH.  CONFIG_ARCH_* seems better reserved for 
> CPU architectures.

Agree on the CONFIG_SOC.

>
> If you agree, would you like to send a followup series, based on the DT 
> patches, to make the SiFive DT file builds depend on CONFIG_SOC_* instead?

Sure, I'd be glad to follow up on that. I'll send a followup series to
start a discussion.

--
Loys