From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:13:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm: add documentation describing Marvell families of SoC In-Reply-To: <1344115004-7886-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> References: <1344115004-7886-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <201208060813.01524.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Saturday 04 August 2012, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > As stated in the introduction of the document, the families of ARM > SoCs at Marvell are very complicated, and it is difficult for > newcomers to understand the organization of this SoC family and how it > relates to the Linux kernel support for those hardware platforms. > > This document is only at RFC stage for now, it requires reviews and > comments from the Marvell maintainers, the PXA maintainers and the MMP > maintainers. For correctness of course, but also to add any other > information that would be useful. For example, one of the thing that > wasn't clear how to detail in the documentation is how the SoCs relate > to each other in terms of hardware IP blocks. For example, most of the > Kirkwood/Dove/Armada 370-XP/etc. hardware IPs (I2C, SPI, USB, SATA, > etc.) are identical, while the PXA and MMP families are completely > separate. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: Andrew Lunn > Cc: Jason Cooper > Cc: Gregory Clement > Cc: Eric Miao > Cc: Russell King > Cc: Haojian Zhuang > Cc: Nicolas Pitre > Cc: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: Olof Johansson > Cc: Lior Amsalem > Cc: Maen Suleiman > Cc: Tawfik Bayouk > Cc: Shadi Ammouri > Cc: Eran Ben-Avi Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann