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

[Jean-Francois Moine]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:07:05 +0200
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure why 32 bits vs 64 bits matters here. We're going to share
> a significant number of drivers already between armv7 and armv8, like
> MMC, EMAC, I2C, and so on.
> 
> And I expect to share the data in other SoCs for the A10, A13 and A20
> for example, or A23/A33, which have a lot of clocks in common too.

The interest of your sunxi-ng approach is that the clocks of each SoC
is described in one file. Here you are mixing 2 SoCs in the same source
file. The advantage is lost.

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