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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] ARM: Initial support for Marvell Berlin SoCs
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On Tuesday 10 December 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > I started with mach-mvebu in the first RFC, but Berlin SoCs are from a
> > different business unit at Marvell and are more PXA compatible than
> > Orion/Kirkwood/Armada 370/XP. Most notably, they lack the "mbus" and
> > IP is either from PXA/MMP or Synopsys DW. Thomas Petazzoni and also
> > Jisheng Zhang from Marvell suggested to not put it into mvebu but
> > have a different mach folder instead.
> 
> Hmm, ok. Well, maybe later on we can look at aggregating them more again. It'd
> be nice to get fewer top-level platform directories per vendor.

I possibly a lot of directories just become empty in the long run and
we remove them once all all code has been subsystemized and drivered.

	Arnd