Dear Sebastian Hesselbarth, On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:45:45 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > After talking a bit with engineers within Marvell that work on this > > SoC, I'm inclined to think that using mach-mvebu for this family of SoC > > is not a good idea. > > Thomas, > > thanks for the info below. Reading a little bit through the GPL'ed > source, I also quickly came to the same conclusion. It is more likely > we can reuse some stuff from other SoCs than Orion or Armada 370/XP. Yes, many of the IP blocks are for example DesignWare IPs, or ARM IPs in the case of the Cortex-A based variants. > > The codename used for those Armada 1500 SOCs is "Berlin", so a name > > like mach-berlin, or mach-mvberlin (if we want to keep 'mv' to identify > > the founder) seems like a good name. > > I have already moved it under mach-mv88de3xxx as for now, all SoCs > Marvell is providing as DE (Digital Entertainment) fit in that. I like > mach-codename style more than plain numbers, maybe I rename the folder > to mach-berlin before posting. I also like mach-berlin a bit more than mach-mve88de3xxx, for a very silly reason: when during a discussion you have to say mach-mv88de3xxx, it's pretty annoying. We already have the horrible mach-mv78xx0, let's not add more of this :) > Speaking of "berlin", they found a 2WW bomb in my home town center today > and are evacuating apartments. Mine too, so it looks like I'll have > some time to prepare v2 tonight.. Doh! > > Also, to help us understand the organization of the family of SOCs, I > > asked a few informations to Marvell, and here is what I could collect: > > > > """ > > BGxname CPU core codename L2 cache controller > > internal name > > BG2 PJ4B Armada1500 Tauros3 > > MV88DE3100 > > BG2-CT Cortex-A9 N/A PL310 > > N/A > > BG3 Cortex-A15 N/A CA15 integrated N/A > > """ > > > > As was told that the Armada X or MV88DEx names are not used during > > development, and what Marvell is really using are the BGxx names. > > Ok, I'll add that info to Marvell SoC documentation also. That'd be nice indeed. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
