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    arm: add documentation describing Marvell families of SoC · 90323467
    Thomas Petazzoni authored
    As stated in the introduction of the document, the families of ARM
    SoCs at Marvell are very complicated, and it is difficult for
    newcomers to understand the organization of this SoC family and how it
    relates to the Linux kernel support for those hardware platforms.
    
    This document is only at RFC stage for now, it requires reviews and
    comments from the Marvell maintainers, the PXA maintainers and the MMP
    maintainers. For correctness of course, but also to add any other
    information that would be useful. For example, one of the thing that
    wasn't clear how to detail in the documentation is how the SoCs relate
    to each other in terms of hardware IP blocks. For example, most of the
    Kirkwood/Dove/Armada 370-XP/etc. hardware IPs (I2C, SPI, USB, SATA,
    etc.) are identical, while the PXA and MMP families are completely
    separate.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
    Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
    Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
    Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
    Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
    Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
    Cc: Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>
    Cc: Maen Suleiman <maen@marvell.com>
    Cc: Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@marvell.com>
    Cc: Shadi Ammouri <shadi@marvell.com>
    Cc: Eran Ben-Avi <benavi@marvell.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
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