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

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2012-05-16 20:34:49

On Wednesday 16 May 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
In this case, we have wildly different names referring to the same chip 
family, and "orion" is far from hinting that it also constitute the 
support for Kirkwood, Dove or (some not all) Armadas, unless you are 
familiar with some legacy Marvell products.  This is why in this case I 
think that a directory name change might be appropriate, especially if 
we're going to cause churn by moving things around already.

I agree that mrvl_ebu_* is not pretty.  This could be mv_ebu_* or 
mvebu_*.  Unless someone has another logical identifier to suggest which 
would capture all that family of SOCs that came out of EBU in Marvell of 
course.

Since this is code not marketing, we don't have to have something flashy 
either, as long as it doesn't create more confusion than "orion" does.  
The various Kconfig help texts are good places to put all the marketing 
names du jour.
mvebu sounds reasonable to me, it's definitely unique and it's almost a
word ;-)

	Arnd
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