Re: New flavour combined orion5x and kirkwood

[Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 13:12 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>> [CC: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org and debian-arm@lists.debian.org]
>>
>> Dear Ben, Ian, Martin,
>>
>> I noticed orion5x and kirkwood are combined into new flavour called
>> marvell in both kernel and flash-kernel git repo [0][1].
>>
>> Maybe it's too late,
>
> It's not; that name isn't even used in experimental yet.
>
>> but I still hope the flavour can be named
>> "mvebu", which will be consistent with upstream.
>> AFAIK, all orion5x and kirkwood changes go into mvebu repo [2] first,
>> and then merge into arm-soc repo [3], and finally reach linus repo
>> [4].
> [...]
>
> I did consider using 'mvebu', but I thought that people might assume
> that it was supposed to support all the ARMv5 SoCs included in that
> family.  That isn't the case and we're unlikely to add support for more
> SoCs at this stage.

Thanks for your feedback!
Now I know why not to choose "mvebu", but I still cannot understand why to
choose "marvell", which seems more generic/wide scope.

I checked
- arch/arm/configs/mvebu_v5_defconfig
and compared with
- arch/arm/configs/multi_v5_defconfig

I find mvebu_v5 actually is less than multi_v5 for a few flavour, such
as iMX, U300.
And in mvebu_v5, there's only orion5x and kirkwood related items.

AFAIK mvebu_v7 belongs to armhf, so we can safely call upstream's mvebu_v5
as armel-mvebu.

Cheers,
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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