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

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Mon May 21 11:39:22 EDT 2012


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:40:52AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Personally, my view is leave it alone and just add a new machine
> > directory.

I agree, see my response to Russell.

> > Pushing items around doesn't really help the amount of code in the
> > kernel, the organisation does not add more than a line or two to the
> > Makefiles.
> 
> It does however make it easier to see where the same code has been
> cut/paste. There is some stuff in the various Orion mach- directories
> which is repeated 4 times. The Armada XP port wanted to add a 5th
> copy. All this repeated code needs to be put into plat-orion.

Does my suggested layout/migration path cover your concerns?

thx,

Jason.



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