[PATCH] arm: Add basic support for new Marvell Armada SoC family

On Tue, 15 May 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

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On the naming side, we are really open to what the community prefers.
We knew there would be quite a bit of discussion around this, because
there's a lot quite a few Marvell SoCs supported in various places, and
it's not obvious what's the right place and name for a new SoC family.

What about making it mach-marvell, which would contain the DT-enabled
SoC support for Marvell SoCs? We can start with 370 and XP today, and
gradually add future SoCs, or even port previous SoCs as they are moved
to support the device tree.

Again we're really open on the solution. Lior from Marvell can give all
the necessary input to explain how the SoC family is organized.

The problem with mach-marvell is that it would be confusing in the presence
of pxa/mmp which I would probably still leave out of that directory, since
they are rather different inside.

I think we can just start with the existing plat-orion directory until
someone comes up with a better place.

plat-orion for the common bits totally makes sense.

I wouldn't use that for SOC specific stuff though.  The proposed 
mach-armada is probably a good choice.

mach-marvell, mach-mrvl or any other derivatives based on the company 
name is a really bad choice.  Marvell is a large company and it has 
several SOC families with totally disjoint history.


Nicolas