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

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Sun May 20 21:30:50 EDT 2012


On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:10:25PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:58:37AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 May 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > And try to avoid putting anything in the include/mach/ directory which
> > > isn't needed by any code outside of arch/arm/{plat,mach}-* directory.
> > > 
> > > In other words, headers needed only for code in arch/arm/plat-mvvebu/
> > > should be in that very same directory.
> > 
> > Ok, so let me make sure I got it all right:
> > 
> > * all *.c files that are used for multiple boards go to plat-mvebu
> > * all *-setup.c files go to mach-mvebu
> > * only headers that are used outside of {mach,plat}-mvebug go to
> >   plat-mvebu/include/mach

plat-mvebu/include/plat ?

> > * headers used to inteface between the first two go to
> >   plat-mvebu/include/plat (?)

plat-mvebu/include ?

> 
> That sounds reasonable.  The only eyebrow raising thing is having an
> include/mach inside a plat-* directory... that seems an odd way to do
> things as mach/ includes normally come from the mach-* directory.
> 
> So I wonder whether Nicolas' idea of "dt-only stuff in arch/arm/plat-*"
> is the right idea.  It just makes plat-* the same as a mach-* but with
> a different name, whereas it is _supposed_ to be for stuff shared
> between a bunch of mach-* directories.

In an ideal (dt) world, plat-*/ would hold all the dt source files, and
arch/arm/boot/dts/ would become the new mach-*/.  mach-*/ is kept around
for the few legacy, unconverted boards.

Or, am I barking up the wrong tree?

thx,

Jason.



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