On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 10:50:14PM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote: > Once there are SoC variants that have different CPU cores, but with the > remaining chip integration the same, I think it would make sense to move > the CONFIG_SOC_ stuff out from ARM, RISC-V, etc., into something that's > not CPU architecture-specific. But for the time being, that seems > premature. Might as well have it be driven by an actual use-case.
We've already had a few SOC families with the same periphals glue and either m68k/powerpc, powerpc/mips or mips/arm/arm64 CPUs, so this isn't exactly new. Not really sure the grouping adds that much value, though.
