Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759439Ab2HXNTF (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:19:05 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:40414 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751931Ab2HXNTA (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:19:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:19:38 +0800 From: Shawn Guo To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] [RFC] ARM: multiplatform: rename all mach headers Message-ID: <20120824131935.GF31998@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> References: <201208221253.07278.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201208221253.07278.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2029 Lines: 44 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:53:06PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I've created this series some time ago, and updated it now to > v3.6-rc1. The idea is to get us a big step closer to the > single zImage kernel across multiple ARM platforms by > untangling the duplicate header file names. > > There are two branches available in the arm-soc tree: > > 1. This series, > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/testing/mach-headers > This just moves header files around and changes most of the > files including them. There are a few remaining drivers > and platform files that keep including a generic file name > like . It remains possible to do that, > and I've run extensive tests to ensure I did not break > anything with this. However, each of these instances means > that there is something that stops working when you get to > the real multiplatform kernel and we still need to deal > with them one by one. > > 2. Actually enabling CONFIG_ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/testing/multiplatform > This builds on top of the first series, but is much more > experimental. It shows how a multiplatform kernel can look > like, by allowing to build vexpress, ux500, imx and omap2 > together in one kernel, but at the same time breaking some of > their features. > I just merged Marc's smp_ops branch below into above branch, and built a kernel from there with vexpress and imx support together. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git smp_ops-v3.5-rc2 The kernel boots fine on both imx5 and imx6, and I did not notice any obvious feature breaking \o/ -- Regards, Shawn -- 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/