Re: New flavour combined orion5x and kirkwood
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 00:48 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'm sorry, I misremembered what my reasoning was. The only ARMv5 SoC
> included in 'mvebu' is Kirkwood. Orion is not part of 'mvebu', even
> though they have many functional blocks and drivers in common.
>
>> 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.
>
> It actually does have wider scope.
Thanks for your clarify!
Now it's clear to me.
Very excited on this new flavour, marvell!
Hope I can try it soon.
Cheers,
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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