Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:19:38 +0800 | From | Shawn Guo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] [RFC] ARM: multiplatform: rename all mach headers |
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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 <mach/uncompress.h>. 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
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