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

[Jason Cooper]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 05:11:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:35:59AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > mach-mvebu/'s directory tree structure could be:
> > 	include/	# no headers
> > 	include/mach/	# headers used by drivers, etc
> > 	include/board/	# common headers used by legacy board files
> > 	board/		# common source code for legacy board files
> > 
> > The end goal being to empty and remove the board/'s and remove the other
> > mach-*/ directories.
> 
> Looking at what's in dove, kirkwood, mv78xx0 and orion5x directories,
> I don't see many board specific files.  The only two I can see are
> leds-*.h, which are shared with platform drivers in drivers/leds.
> 
> We have a place for this already - include/linux/platform_data.
> 
> So I don't think we need include/board/ at all.

Fair enough, we can move that.

> I'd also suggest going against our current setup of not having "board/"
> subdirectories in mach-*.  Just name them board-foo.c.

This is what we are currently doing for boards in the midst of DT
conversion.  In mach-kirkwood/ there is board-dt.c, and
board-dreamplug.c.  board-dt.c is the DT code, while board-dreamplug.c
is board specific init code that hasn't been converted to DT yet.  Once
converted, board-dreamplug.c will disappear.  This follows what tegra is
doing.

We can leave the legacy, unconverted boards where they are
(mach-kirkwood/guruplug-setup.c), but what about the common code they
depend on (mpp.c, pcie.c, etc)?  That's what I was suggesting putting in
mach-mvebu/board/...

Of course, we could leave everything alone (keep plat-orion/ as is), and
create mach-mvebu/ for all devicetree boards under the mvebu umbrella.
As boards are converted/moved to mach-mvebu/, they are deleted from
their original mach-*/  All new boards would also go into mach-mvebu/

thx,

Jason.