On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 05:55:29PM +0000, Alex Nemirovsky wrote: > Looking inside > grep -h CA board/cortina/common/armv8/lowlevel_init.S > #if defined(CONFIG_SOC_CA7774) > #if defined(CONFIG_SOC_CA8277B) > > as we understand it, the alternative would lead to maintaining duplicate but > slightly different code for each ARM based SoC in > arch/arm/mach-ca7774 > arch/arm/mach-ca8277B > arch/arm/mach-ca7742 > arch/arm/mach-ca8279 > arch/arm/mach-caXnnn > > correct? or should we simply create a arch/arm/mach-caxxxx, > arch/mips/mach-caxxxx, arch/xtensa/mach-axxxx, arch/riscv/mach-caxxxx, etc > to maintain similar > changes to each arch related custom code which varies slightly for each SoC > variation within each architecture? > What’s best to avoid maintaining duplicate code across SoC variations within > the same ISA family?
I would hope we can get by with arch/arm/mach-caxxxx or so and board/cortina/common/. How are you handling common code in the linux kernel? -- Tom
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