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

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 09:30:50PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:10:25PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:58:37AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Sunday 20 May 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > And try to avoid putting anything in the include/mach/ directory which
> > > > isn't needed by any code outside of arch/arm/{plat,mach}-* directory.
> > > > 
> > > > In other words, headers needed only for code in arch/arm/plat-mvvebu/
> > > > should be in that very same directory.
> > > 
> > > Ok, so let me make sure I got it all right:
> > > 
> > > * all *.c files that are used for multiple boards go to plat-mvebu
> > > * all *-setup.c files go to mach-mvebu
> > > * only headers that are used outside of {mach,plat}-mvebug go to
> > >   plat-mvebu/include/mach
> 
> plat-mvebu/include/plat ?

Better.

> > > * headers used to inteface between the first two go to
> > >   plat-mvebu/include/plat (?)
> 
> plat-mvebu/include ?

No, we don't put include files in that directory, always a subdirectory.
But note - any header file used _only_ by files in plat-mvebu should be
in plat-mvebu itself and not some subdirectory.  Locality of reference
is the key idea there.

> > That sounds reasonable.  The only eyebrow raising thing is having an
> > include/mach inside a plat-* directory... that seems an odd way to do
> > things as mach/ includes normally come from the mach-* directory.
> > 
> > So I wonder whether Nicolas' idea of "dt-only stuff in arch/arm/plat-*"
> > is the right idea.  It just makes plat-* the same as a mach-* but with
> > a different name, whereas it is _supposed_ to be for stuff shared
> > between a bunch of mach-* directories.
> 
> In an ideal (dt) world, plat-*/ would hold all the dt source files, and
> arch/arm/boot/dts/ would become the new mach-*/.  mach-*/ is kept around
> for the few legacy, unconverted boards.

At that point I'd suggest the plat-* is renamed to mach-* ;)

plat-* was only invented to allow SoC folk to have some place to put
common code shared between a set of mach-*, and nothing more.