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

[Jason Cooper]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:25:28AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 21 May 2012, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > > 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:
> > 
> > > > 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/...
> > 
> > I like the idea of leaving the *-setup.c board files where they are,
> > while moving all the other files (headers and the platform-wide .c
> > files) to mach-mvebu.
> > 
> > However, given that we still don't have consensus on where things
> > should really be and the merge window is already open, I would suggest
> > don't try to do it all now for v3.5 but rather plan it for v3.6 once
> > we agreed on one approach, and then do some of the next consolidation
> > steps as well.
> 
> I'd suggest that mach-mvebu be created earlier for the new EBU ARmada 
> SOC support though.

I'd like to second that, and suggest moving mach-kirkwood/board-*.c to
it.  Basically, make it the one location for marvell SoC dt boards.

I'm looking at the scope of it now.

thx,

Jason.