Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arch: riscv: add support for building DTB files from DT source data

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.