Re: Kernel 2.6.25 vs Orion git repository

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:07:14AM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:

> I've just seen that kernel 2.6.25 has integrated support for Marvell 
> Orion. What does that mean with respect to the Orion git repository? Was 
> it merged and now the official repository is the kernel's one? Or does 
> the Orion repository still exist as a first-stage feature integration path?

2.6.25 contains the bits necessary to run Linux on Marvell Orion
88f5181, 88f5182 and 88f5281 processors.  (Not all peripherals are
supported yet, though.)

On top of that, there is a patch series that introduces
arch/arm/plat-orion for code sharing between the current Orion port
and future new chip support -- this series is present in the orion.git
tree and is queued for 2.6.26.

In the orion.git tree there are also some patches that start pushing
the mv643xx_eth ethernet driver into the direction of being able to
support multiple instances of itself -- this will be necessary for new
chip support.  The first couple of patches of this series have also
been queued for 2.6.26 (and some of them not yet because they need
more work and/or reviewing.)

So, almost everything present in the orion.git tree right now is
stuff that will go into 2.6.26 for the purpose of preparing for new
chip support.

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