We get support for three new 32-bit SoC platforms this time. The amount
of changes in arch/arm for any of them is miniscule, as all the
interesting code is in device driver subsystems (irqchip, clk, pinctrl,
...) these days. I'm listing them here, as the addition of the Kconfig
statement is the main relevant milestone for a new platform. In each
case, some drivers are are shared with existing platforms, while
other drivers are added for v4.7 as well, or come in a later release.
- The Aspeed platform is probably the most interesting one, this is
what most whitebox servers use as their baseboard management
controller. We get support for the very common ast2400 and ast2500
SoCs. The OpenBMC project focuses on this chip, and the LWN
article about their ELC 2016 presentation at
https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/ triggered the submission, but the
code comes from IBM's OpenPOWER team rather than the team at
Facebook. There are still a lot more drivers that need to get added
over time, and I hope both teams can work together on that.
- OXNAS is an old platform for Network Attached Storage devices
from Oxford Semiconductor. There are models with ARM10 (!) and
ARM11MPCore cores, but for now, we only support the original ARM9
based versions.
The product lineup was subsequently part of PLX, Avago and now the
new Broadcom Ltd. https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/soc/soc.oxnas
has some more information.
- V2M-MPS2 is a prototyping platform from ARM for their Cortex-M
cores and is related to the existing Realview / Versatile Express
lineup, but without MMU. We now support various NOMMU platforms,
so adding a new one is fairly straightforward.
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.100112_0100_03_en/
has detailed information about the platform.
Other noteworthy updates:
- Work on LPC32xx has resumed, and Vladimir Zapolskiy and Sylvain Lemieux
are now maintaining the platform. This is an older ARM9 based
platform from NXP (not Freescale), but it remains in use in embedded
markets.
- Kevin Hilman is now co-maintaining the Amlogic Meson platform for both
32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and started contributing some patches.
- As is often the case, work on the OMAP platforms makes up the bulk of
the actual SoC code changes in arch/arm, but there isn't a lot of
that either.
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Merge tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"We get support for three new 32-bit SoC platforms this time.
The amount of changes in arch/arm for any of them is miniscule, as all
the interesting code is in device driver subsystems (irqchip, clk,
pinctrl, ...) these days. I'm listing them here, as the addition of
the Kconfig statement is the main relevant milestone for a new
platform. In each case, some drivers are are shared with existing
platforms, while other drivers are added for v4.7 as well, or come in
a later release.
- The Aspeed platform is probably the most interesting one, this is
what most whitebox servers use as their baseboard management
controller. We get support for the very common ast2400 and ast2500
SoCs. The OpenBMC project focuses on this chip, and the LWN
article about their ELC 2016 presentation at
https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/
triggered the submission, but the code comes from IBM's OpenPOWER
team rather than the team at Facebook. There are still a lot more
drivers that need to get added over time, and I hope both teams can
work together on that.
- OXNAS is an old platform for Network Attached Storage devices from
Oxford Semiconductor. There are models with ARM10 (!) and
ARM11MPCore cores, but for now, we only support the original ARM9
based versions. The product lineup was subsequently part of PLX,
Avago and now the new Broadcom Ltd.
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/soc/soc.oxnas
has some more information.
- V2M-MPS2 is a prototyping platform from ARM for their Cortex-M
cores and is related to the existing Realview / Versatile Express
lineup, but without MMU.
We now support various NOMMU platforms, so adding a new one is
fairly straightforward.
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.100112_0100_03_en/
has detailed information about the platform.
Other noteworthy updates:
- Work on LPC32xx has resumed, and Vladimir Zapolskiy and Sylvain
Lemieux are now maintaining the platform.
This is an older ARM9 based platform from NXP (not Freescale), but
it remains in use in embedded markets.
- Kevin Hilman is now co-maintaining the Amlogic Meson platform for
both 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and started contributing some patches.
- As is often the case, work on the OMAP platforms makes up the bulk
of the actual SoC code changes in arch/arm, but there isn't a lot
of that either"
* tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (42 commits)
MAINTAINERS: ARM/Amlogic: add co-maintainer, misc. updates
MAINTAINERS: add ARM/NXP LPC32XX SoC specific drivers to the section
MAINTAINERS: add new maintainers of NXP LPC32xx SoC
MAINTAINERS: move ARM/NXP LPC32xx record to ARM section
arm: Add Aspeed machine
ARM: lpc32xx: remove duplicate const on lpc32xx_auxdata_lookup
ARM: lpc32xx: remove leftovers of legacy clock source and provider drivers
ARM: lpc32xx: remove reboot header file
ARM: dove: Remove CLK_IS_ROOT
ARM: orion5x: Remove CLK_IS_ROOT
ARM: mv78xx0: Remove CLK_IS_ROOT
ARM: davinci: da850: use clk->set_parent for async3
ARM: davinci: Move clock init after ioremap.
MAINTAINERS: Update ARM Versatile Express platform entry
ARM: vexpress/mps2: introduce MPS2 platform
MAINTAINERS: add maintainer entry for ARM/OXNAS platform
ARM: Add new mach-oxnas
irqchip: versatile-fpga: add new compatible for OX810SE SoC
ARM: uniphier: correct the call order of of_node_put()
MAINTAINERS: fix stale TI DaVinci entries
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