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Date:   Sun, 9 Jun 2019 00:49:30 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, lollivier@...libre.com,
        paul@...an.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aou@...s.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arch: riscv: add support for building DTB files
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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.