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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue May 15 05:55:11 EDT 2012


Le Tue, 15 May 2012 10:51:35 +0100,
Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk> a écrit :

> >> You'll find in this patch set the initial support for a new family
> >> of ARMv7-compatible Marvell SoCs, that we have choosen to support
> >> in the arch/arm/mach-armada/ directory.
> 
> I went for the arch/arm/mach-mv-armadaxp as it kept the marvell socs
> together (ignoring kirkwood and dove for the moment).

mach-mv-armadaxp would be a good name if we supported only the Armada
XP SoC, but we also support the Armada 370 SoC within the same
directory. This makes it easy to build a single binary kernel image
that boots and runs on both SoCs.

Thomas
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