From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrew@lunn.ch (Andrew Lunn) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:04:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2] arm: Add basic support for new Marvell Armada 370 and Armada XP SoC In-Reply-To: <4FD6F15E.4080000@free-electrons.com> References: <1339433585-28087-1-git-send-email-gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> <4FD658C2.4030503@redhat.com> <4FD6F15E.4080000@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20120612080418.GC3221@lunn.ch> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:35:58AM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > On 06/11/2012 10:44 PM, David Marlin wrote: > > > > I noticed that you are using mach-mvebu in these patches. I have seen > > these machines referred to as 'armada', 'axp', 'armadaxp', etc. Will > > 'mvebu' be the official machine name to use for these systems? I'm > > looking for a 'name' to identify the common kernel for these systems. > > For reference, the names of the ARM kernels we are currently building in > > Fedora include: 'highbank', 'imx', 'kirkwood', 'omap', and 'tegra'. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > d.marlin > > =========== > > > > Hello David, > > Mvebu is aimed to be the official name for the all the SOC with device tree > support coming out of Marvell's EBU division. As stated Nicolas Pitre: "One > thing that is common to Orion/Kirkwood/Dove/(insert some Armada flavours > here)/etc though is that they came out of Marvell's EBU division." > > For the beginning only Armada XP and Armada 370 are in this directory but as > son as the other Marvell architectures will be converted to device tree they > will be moved to mach-mvebu. So it still seems like we have a naming issue. We have given a usable name to the directory. But what do we call the kernel? This is what David wants to know. When we have moved the DT enabled architectures into mach-mvebu, they are still likely to build a ARMv5 kernel for Kirkwood and Orion5x, and a ARMv7 kernel for Dove plus these two new SoCs. But what do we call this new kernel? Andrew