On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@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 <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 13:12 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> > > [CC: debian-ker...@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, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 17B3ACB1