linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] arm64: Allwinner A64 support based on sunxi-ng

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Message-Id: <20160727104623.e9ca7b708e5c6462f44a5d01@free.fr>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:46:23 +0200
From:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] arm64: Allwinner A64 support based on sunxi-ng

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:30:28 +0200
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com> wrote:

> ere is the previous A64 patches made by Andre [1], reworked to use
> the new sunxi-ng clock framework.
> 
> This uses the current H3 clock code, as both are really similar. The
> first patches are just meant to rework slightly the H3 code, before
> introducing the A64-related patches.
> 
> Some WiP stuff have been removed, such as the MMC part, but this serie
> already has a decent amount of devices supported: uart, i2c, rsb, etc.
> 
> Let me know what you think,

I don't see the interest to have common code for 32bits and 64bits.
The clock driver of a SoC will never evolve, so, it is simpler to
copy the source common with the H3 into a clean A64 clock driver.

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