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

On Wed, 16 May 2012, Lior Amsalem wrote:

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Cc: Thomas Petazzoni; Rob Herring; Ben Dooks; Andrew Lunn; Jason Cooper;
Nicolas Pitre; Maen Suleiman; Ben Dooks; Olof Johansson; linux-arm-
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: Add basic support for new Marvell Armada SoC
family

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Thanks for the list, very helpful!

So do you think it makes sense to put all of these into mach-orion?

Well, Orion is old and seems like not the best name for a directory to include 
all the new platforms.
We are discussing it internally as well and I'll update with our suggestion.

My suggestion is: mach-mrvl-ebu or plat-mrvl-ebu

Rational: any marketing name is going to be unsuitable for structuring 
common code in the kernel, especially as Marvell has a tendency to reuse 
the same marketing name for different things, as well as different names 
for similar things.  One thing that is common to 
Orion/Kirkwood/Dove/(insert some Armada flavours here)/etc though is 
that they came out of Marvell's EBU division.


Nicolas