[PATCH v2] arm: Add basic support for new Marvell Armada 370 and Armada XP SoC
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue Jun 12 10:59:13 EDT 2012
On Tuesday 12 June 2012, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:06:16PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/board-* (DT files)
> > > -> arch/arm/mach-mvebu/
> >
> > I know of work being done to make orion5x and dove also support DT.
> > Should we consider some sort of prefix or midfix indicating which SoC
> > a board file is for? It will not be easy to mentally keep track of
> > board-ts209.c is an orion5x and board-ts219.c is kirkwood etc.
>
> The board-BOARD.c files are transitional files, and will disappear once
> the DT conversion is done. All that will remain is board-dt.c. So,
> there is no long-term issue. Since it's a short term issue, and we're
> moving/renaming anyway, how about kirkwood-dreamplug.c, orion5x-ts209.c,
> etc?
I was going to suggest the same.
FWIW, the board-dt.c from mach-kirkwood should just become kirkwood.c
and we might want to merge it with the kirkwood common.c file in the long
run, if any contents from that file remain for the dt version.
Arnd
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