patch-2.4.0-test9 linux/Documentation/arm/README

• Lines: 37
• Date: Mon Sep 18 15:15:24 2000
• Orig file: v2.4.0-test8/linux/Documentation/arm/README
• Orig date: Mon Jun 19 17:59:33 2000

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test8/linux/Documentation/arm/README linux/Documentation/arm/README
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   the problem, what you were doing, etc.
 
 
+Include files
+-------------
+
+  Several new include directories have been created under include/asm-arm,
+  which are there to reduce the clutter in the top-level directory.  These
+  directories, and their purpose is listed below:
+
+   arch-*	machine/platform specific header files
+   hardware	driver-internal ARM specific data structures/definitions
+   mach		descriptions of generic ARM to specific machine interfaces
+   proc-*	processor dependent header files (currently only two
+		categories)
+
+
+Machine/Platform support
+------------------------
+
+  The ARM tree contains support for a lot of different machine types.  To
+  continue supporting these differences, it has become necessary to split
+  machine-specific parts by directory.  For this, the machine category is
+  used to select which directories and files get included (we will use
+  $(MACHINE) to refer to the category)
+
+  To this end, we now have arch/arm/mach-$(MACHINE) directories which are
+  designed to house the non-driver files for a particular machine (eg, PCI,
+  memory management, architecture definitions etc).  For all future
+  machines, there should be a corresponding include/asm-arm/arch-$(MACHINE)
+  directory.
+
+
 Modules
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