On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:09:28PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 04:52:44AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:23:15PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > > I just did the necessary changes for MIPS and the first testbuild is running
> > > successfully so far.
> > > 
> > > One of the ugly things in the MIPS makefiles is the use of platform-
> > > specific headers in include/asm-mips/mach-* which contain platform specific
> > > headers.  Ideally those should be included through something like
> > > <mach/somefile.h> or <plat/something.h> and I think a directory like
> > > arch/$ARCH/$PLATFORM/include/plat/foobar.h could be a good place in the
> > > new scheme?  I assume other platforms have similar issues with subplatforms,
> > > processor sub-architectures etc.?
> > 
> > Hi Ralf.
> > 
> > Did you follow what arm have planned?
> > It looks like MIPS should do things in the same way so
> > we get some consistency.
> > 
> Where was this discussed? SH has the same issues obviously, but we've
> already settled on a scheme.

Looking again I realize this was only discussed on the arm kernel mailing list
and people involved was rmk, Harvaard and myself.

This was not optimal - sorry.

How much mips and arm solution differ I have not looked at closely.

	Sam
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