Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757167Ab0BCPYw (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:24:52 -0500 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.24]:57813 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756747Ab0BCPYv (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:24:51 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=o2LvUHauk+q1bfGr9udRB55lU483poPO9kDrVSvpD5WXHnUHjFY4SsZ/qTYozeaMnL VQN9QFwcsycWlGP0LW8GA+ymEZeMc5MIEdg2293fa86RTQtX/AtEA7fuHDfJZ9tkZZXu gmDqwhtkQwGQQ8OLNaNzIewcnt1ndPmcMT7rU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100203133840.GD5252@k2> References: <0511204199ab83aed2340e70a4639500c0528dab.1265173480.git.amit.kucheria@canonical.com> <9fa7a3c70c46a1f776c6520051481cff6525ef02.1265173480.git.amit.kucheria@canonical.com> <20100203094959.GN6130@pengutronix.de> <20100203133840.GD5252@k2> From: Eric Miao Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:16:53 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 04/11] mxc: changes to common plat-mxc code to add support for i.MX5 To: Sascha Hauer , Eric Miao , List Linux Kernel , linux@arm.linux.org.uk, Dinh.Nguyen@freescale.com, grant.likely@secretlab.ca, r.herring@freescale.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, daniel@caiaq.de, bryan.wu@canonical.com, valentin.longchamp@epfl.ch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1586 Lines: 34 On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On 10 Feb 03, Sascha Hauer wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:43:33PM -0800, Eric Miao wrote: >> > >> > Mmm.... this should be something that we really need to get rid of, it just >> > makes a single kernel for both TZIC and AVIC together impossible, if that's >> > so designed by HW, I'm thinking about keeping this into plat-mxc/ is a good >> > way to go ... >> > >> > Sascha, you have any better idea? Provided the other file debug-macro.S in >> > the same directory already seems to break the support for multiple arches? >> > >> >> I have the following patch which I'm not sure I like better. It can >> support both irq controller types and does not add overhead if only one >> of them is compiled in. It might need some refactoring to fit into Amits >> patch stack. > > Is co-existence of TZIC and AVIC a blocker to merging i.MX5 code? I've > already made changes so that i.MX5 doesn't explode if AVIC is compiled in. > > Admittedly the assembly is a bit hard to rid, but we can fix in another set > of patches geared towards unification of an i.MX kernel. IMHO, making these > changes along with introducing a new SoC will make things a bit hard to > follow/merge. > I personally don't feel that's a hard requirement, as long as it can be fixed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/