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

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 15 May 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On the naming side, we are really open to what the community prefers.
> > We knew there would be quite a bit of discussion around this, because
> > there's a lot quite a few Marvell SoCs supported in various places, and
> > it's not obvious what's the right place and name for a new SoC family.
> > 
> > What about making it mach-marvell, which would contain the DT-enabled
> > SoC support for Marvell SoCs? We can start with 370 and XP today, and
> > gradually add future SoCs, or even port previous SoCs as they are moved
> > to support the device tree.
> > 
> > Again we're really open on the solution. Lior from Marvell can give all
> > the necessary input to explain how the SoC family is organized.
> 
> The problem with mach-marvell is that it would be confusing in the presence
> of pxa/mmp which I would probably still leave out of that directory, since
> they are rather different inside.
> 
> I think we can just start with the existing plat-orion directory until
> someone comes up with a better place.

plat-orion for the common bits totally makes sense.

I wouldn't use that for SOC specific stuff though.  The proposed 
mach-armada is probably a good choice.

mach-marvell, mach-mrvl or any other derivatives based on the company 
name is a really bad choice.  Marvell is a large company and it has 
several SOC families with totally disjoint history.


Nicolas