Hello. Yusuf Caglar AKYUZ wrote:
Absolutely.
Here's an example of enforcing your private opinion...
Yes, this is my private opinion, but I am not enforcing anything. I am attempting to share the technical arguments behind my private opinion so folks know where I'm coming from.
As the person who has to maintain a single code base that will run on all these platforms, I have a *very* strong desire to have a single binary run across multiple SoCs.
May be sholld also ask tbe opinion of TI and the real users?
I am very eager to hear more opinions. That's what this list is all about.
We have some DaVinci based boards here, using single kernel for all is quite time-and-effort saver for us. It would be really nice to be able to boot the same kernel(s) in later designs as well, given that the arch is similar.
I do believe that OMAP-L1xx/DA8xx is a different enough arch. Unfied kernel will have to be burdened with too much unusable code.
Also isn't a single kernel for multiple archs is the better for auto-builders?
How?
I also quickly looked into arm/arch/mach-* directories and I see that some archs choose one mach-* folder, some many. However, it is seen that former group is well maintained than the latter. So for the sake of future code quality I hope you don't choose to differentiate code of SOCs under discussion.
We're not going to differentiate the code that's *actually* common.
Best regards, Caglar
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