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

[Gregory CLEMENT]

On 06/13/2012 05:06 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 12:52 PM, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> 
>> You'll find in this patch set the new version of the initial support for a
>> new family of ARMv7-compatible Marvell SoCs initially submitted by my
>> colleague Thomas Petazzoni. Following the conclusion of the discussion when
>> we submitted our first version we have chosen to add this support for this
>> SoC family in the to support in the arch/arm/mach-mvebu/ directory.
> 
> Pardon my silly question. I know that there's an effort to reconcile the
> two different SoCs so you're picking a neutral name, but what does
> "mvebu" mean, and will you be persistently keeping this name? Our guys
> want to know what this new platform will entail for Fedora support in
> terms of the platform name being used in various non-kernel places.

Hello Jon,

As I explained to Martin
"Mvebu is aimed to be the official name for the all the SOC with device tree
support coming out of Marvell's EBU division. As stated Nicolas Pitre: "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."

[...]

For extensive explanation see the thread starting at this point
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/167744/focus=167782.
"

So MVEBU is not only for Armada XP and Armada 370 but also for other
Marvell SOCs such as Kirkwood or Orion for example.


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