Hi Arnd, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:40:56AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 15 January 2014 10:10:06 Maxime Ripard wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:34:04PM +0100, Gerardo Di Iorio wrote: > > > Change the AllWinner A1X SOCs to Allwinner Sunxi SOCs > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Gerardo Di Iorio <aret...@gmail.com> > > > --- > > > arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig | 2 +- > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig > > > index 547004c..adb2574 100644 > > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig > > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig > > > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ > > > config ARCH_SUNXI > > > - bool "Allwinner A1X SOCs" if ARCH_MULTI_V7 > > > + bool "Allwinner Sunxi SOCs" if ARCH_MULTI_V7 > > > > I wonder if the sunxi (apart the weird letter case) is actually > > needed. Maybe we can just put "Allwinner SoCs" (it would be great if > > you could fix the SoCs case too). > > If you want to have exact naming, try to find something that excludes the > old Sun3i (F20) and earlier chips (unless someone is already planning > to work on them). Maybe also mention the "Boxchip" name, although that > seems to be falling out of use these days.
I'm not sure that's good to exclude chips. We have a number of SoCs we don't support even on later families (A31s, A23, mostly). I'm not sure we want to have an ever growing list of SoCs supported (or not-supported). "sunXi" would be fine I guess, or "A-series" like suggested on IRC. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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