[PATCH 1/3] ARM: add base support for Marvell Dove SoC

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Sat Nov 28 14:03:38 EST 2009


On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:41:39AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, saeed bishara wrote:
> > 
> > > The board id that supported by this patch is 1788, the board name in
> > > the machines registry updated to dove_db, but the Type Identifier
> > > needs to be changed from MACH_TYPE_MACH_MARVELL_NEW1 to
> > > MACH_TYPE_DOVE_DB.
> > 
> > The orion repo has the right machine identifier already. No changes 
> > needed there.
> 
> Meanwhile, I've been deleting it from my updates to mainline ever since it
> was created back in 2008 because it looked like someone screwed up their
> entry, and registered 1789 instead of talking to me.
> 
> This means if I pull the dovedb stuff into mainline now, it's probably
> going to break builds.

I think we can live with that.  Things will fix themselves when both the 
machine id update and the Dove support are merged together upstream.  
Dove is a new architecture so no one ever attempted to build it before 
anyway.


Nicolas



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