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

[Jason Cooper]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 08:34:49PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > In this case, we have wildly different names referring to the same chip 
> > family, and "orion" is far from hinting that it also constitute the 
> > support for Kirkwood, Dove or (some not all) Armadas, unless you are 
> > familiar with some legacy Marvell products.  This is why in this case I 
> > think that a directory name change might be appropriate, especially if 
> > we're going to cause churn by moving things around already.
> > 
> > I agree that mrvl_ebu_* is not pretty.  This could be mv_ebu_* or 
> > mvebu_*.  Unless someone has another logical identifier to suggest which 
> > would capture all that family of SOCs that came out of EBU in Marvell of 
> > course.
> > 
> > Since this is code not marketing, we don't have to have something flashy 
> > either, as long as it doesn't create more confusion than "orion" does.  
> > The various Kconfig help texts are good places to put all the marketing 
> > names du jour.
> 
> mvebu sounds reasonable to me, it's definitely unique and it's almost a
> word ;-)

mvebuntu? *ducks*

;-P

Jason.