[PATCH v2] arm: Add basic support for new Marvell Armada 370 and Armada XP SoC

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Jun 12 11:40:20 EDT 2012


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 02:59:13PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 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.

So, there would be an orion5x.c, dove.c as well?  Or, should it be
mvebu.c to encompass all of them?

thx,

Jason.



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