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

[Ben Dooks]

On 18/05/12 20:20, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 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*

you, sir, are clearly quackers.


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