just because somethign is on the chip physially doesnt mean it is not a 
peripheral arhitecturally. A KA690 VAX processor has an NVAX processor but
also has an onboard ethernet and CI adaptor- are those part of the 
processor or are they peripherals. I think they should be classified as 
peripherlas, or as particular models of a processor within the same arch. 
isildur

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:36:51PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> 
>  > I think calling it "consensus" is optimistic, though the majority of
>  > people seemed to be in favour of that kind of move.  In any case, I'm not
>  > sure that on-chip peripherals really count as part of the ARM
>  > CPU.  They're more equivalent to the IOMD or Footbridge, whose support
>  > code would presumably live in the riscpc and cats directories
>  > respectively.
> 
> No, I don't think so.  If it's on-chip, then any system that has that
> CPU is going to have those devices -- and they really are part of that
> CPU chip.  E.g. an "hpcarm" port is going to be separate from a port
> to a random eval board that happens to have an SA11x0 on it, because it
> could have different devices on it -- but the on-chip "peripherals" really
> are common, due to the CPU.
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
>