linux/Documentation/arm
Linus Torvalds 721afaa2ae ARM: Device-tree updates
As always, a large number of DT updates. Too many to enumerate them all,
 but at a glance:
 
 New SoCs introduced in this release:
 
  - Amlogic:
    + Meson 8M2 SoC, a.k.a. S812. A quad Cortex-A9 SoC used in some set
      top boxes and other products.
 
  - Mediatek:
    + MT7623A, which is a flavor of the MT7623 family with other on-chip
      ethernet options.
 
  - Qualcomm:
    + SDM845, a.k.a Snapdragon 845, an 4+4-core Kryo 385/845
      (Cortex-A75/A55 derivative) SoC that's one of the current high-end
      mobile SoCs.
 
      It's great to see mainline support for it. So far, you
      can't do much with it, since a lot of peripherals are not yet in the
      DTs but driver support for USB, GPU and other pieces are starting to
      trickle in. This might end up being a well-supported SoC upstream if
      the momentum keeps up.
 
  - Renesas:
    + R8A77990, a.k.a R-Car E3, a new automotive entertainment-targeted
      SoC. Currently only one Cortex-A53 CPU is enabled, we are eagerly
      awaiting more. So far, basic drivers such as serial, gpios, PMU and
      ethernet are enabled.
    + R8A77470, a.k.a. RZ/G1C, a new dual Cortex-A7 SoC with PowerVR
      GPU. Same here, basic set of drivers such as serial, gpios and ethernet
      enabled, and SMP support is also forthcoming.
 
  - STMicroelectronics:
    + STM32F469, very similar tih STM32F429 but with display support
 
 Enhancements to SoCs/platforms (DTS contents, some driver portions might
 not be in yet):
 
  - Allwinner sun8i (h3/a33/a83t) SMP, DVFS tweaks, misc
  - Amlogic Meson: I2C, UFS, TDM, GPIO external interrupts, MMC resets
  - Hisilicon hi3660: Thermal cooling, CPU frequency scaling, mailbox interfaces
  - Marvell Berlin2CD: SMP support, thermal sensors
  - Mediatek MT7623: Highspeed DMA, audio support
  - Qualcomm IPQ8074 PCIe support, MSM8996 UFS support
  - Renesas: Watchdog and PMU support across many platforms
  - Rockchip RK3399: USB3 OTG support
  - Samsung Exynos: Audio-over-HDMI on Odroid X/X2/U3
  - STMicro STM32: Lots of peripherals added to STM32MP175C
  - Uniphier: Ethernet support
 
 New boards:
 
  - Allwinner A20: Olimex A20-SOM-EVB-eMMC variant
  - Allwinner H2+: Libre Computer ALL-H3-CC (h2+ version)
  - Allwinner A33: Nintendo NES/SuperNES Classic Edition
  - Aspeed: S2600WF, Inventec Lanyang BMC, Portwell Neptune
  - Berlin2CD: Valve Steam Link
  - Broadcom BCM5301X: Luxul XAP-1610 and XWR-3150 V1
  - Broadcom: Raspberry Pi 3 B+
  - Mediatek MT7623N and MT7623A: reference boards
  - Meson 8M2: Tronsmart MXIII Plus
  - NXP i.MX: Engicam i.CoreM6, DHCOM iMX6 SOM, BTicino i.MX6DL Mamoj
  - Qualcomm MSM8974: Sony Xperia Z1 Compact support
  - Qualcomm SDM845: MTP development board
  - Renesas: Ebisu R8A77990 board
  - Renesas RZ/G1C: iwg23s: iWave G235-SDB
  - TI am335x: Pocketbeagle support
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Merge tag 'armsoc-dt' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull ARM SoC device tree updates from Olof Johansson:
 "As always, a large number of DT updates. Too many to enumerate them
  all, but at a glance:

  New SoCs introduced in this release:

   - Amlogic:
      + Meson 8M2 SoC, a.k.a. S812. A quad Cortex-A9 SoC used in some
        set top boxes and other products.

   - Mediatek:
      + MT7623A, which is a flavor of the MT7623 family with other
        on-chip ethernet options.

   - Qualcomm:
      + SDM845, a.k.a Snapdragon 845, an 4+4-core Kryo 385/845
        (Cortex-A75/A55 derivative) SoC that's one of the current
        high-end mobile SoCs.

        It's great to see mainline support for it. So far, you can't do
        much with it, since a lot of peripherals are not yet in the DTs
        but driver support for USB, GPU and other pieces are starting to
        trickle in. This might end up being a well-supported SoC
        upstream if the momentum keeps up.

   - Renesas:
      + R8A77990, a.k.a R-Car E3, a new automotive
        entertainment-targeted SoC. Currently only one Cortex-A53 CPU is
        enabled, we are eagerly awaiting more. So far, basic drivers
        such as serial, gpios, PMU and ethernet are enabled.
      + R8A77470, a.k.a. RZ/G1C, a new dual Cortex-A7 SoC with PowerVR
        GPU. Same here, basic set of drivers such as serial, gpios and
        ethernet enabled, and SMP support is also forthcoming.

   - STMicroelectronics:
      + STM32F469, very similar tih STM32F429 but with display support

  Enhancements to SoCs/platforms (DTS contents, some driver portions
  might not be in yet):
   - Allwinner sun8i (h3/a33/a83t) SMP, DVFS tweaks, misc
   - Amlogic Meson: I2C, UFS, TDM, GPIO external interrupts, MMC resets
   - Hisilicon hi3660: Thermal cooling, CPU frequency scaling, mailbox interfaces
   - Marvell Berlin2CD: SMP support, thermal sensors
   - Mediatek MT7623: Highspeed DMA, audio support
   - Qualcomm IPQ8074 PCIe support, MSM8996 UFS support
   - Renesas: Watchdog and PMU support across many platforms
   - Rockchip RK3399: USB3 OTG support
   - Samsung Exynos: Audio-over-HDMI on Odroid X/X2/U3
   - STMicro STM32: Lots of peripherals added to STM32MP175C
   - Uniphier: Ethernet support

  New boards:
   - Allwinner A20: Olimex A20-SOM-EVB-eMMC variant
   - Allwinner H2+: Libre Computer ALL-H3-CC (h2+ version)
   - Allwinner A33: Nintendo NES/SuperNES Classic Edition
   - Aspeed: S2600WF, Inventec Lanyang BMC, Portwell Neptune
   - Berlin2CD: Valve Steam Link
   - Broadcom BCM5301X: Luxul XAP-1610 and XWR-3150 V1
   - Broadcom: Raspberry Pi 3 B+
   - Mediatek MT7623N and MT7623A: reference boards
   - Meson 8M2: Tronsmart MXIII Plus
   - NXP i.MX: Engicam i.CoreM6, DHCOM iMX6 SOM, BTicino i.MX6DL Mamoj
   - Qualcomm MSM8974: Sony Xperia Z1 Compact support
   - Qualcomm SDM845: MTP development board
   - Renesas: Ebisu R8A77990 board
   - Renesas RZ/G1C: iwg23s: iWave G235-SDB
   - TI am335x: Pocketbeagle support"

* tag 'armsoc-dt' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (448 commits)
  ARM: dts: aspeed: Fix hwrng register address
  arm64: dts: sprd: whale2: Add the rtc enable clock for watchdog
  arm64: dts: sprd: Add GPIO and GPIO keys device nodes
  arm64: dts: sprd: fix typo in 'remote-endpoint'
  arm64: dts: apq8096-db820c: Removed bt-en-1-8v regulator
  arm64: dts: fix regulator property name for wlan pcie endpoint
  arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Use UFS_GDSC for UFS
  ARM: dts: pxa3xx: fix MMC clocks
  ARM: pxa: dts: add pin definitions for extended GPIOs
  ARM: pxa: dts: add gpio-ranges to gpio controller
  ARM: dts: ipq8074: Enable few peripherals for hk01 board
  ARM: dts: ipq8074: Add pcie nodes
  ARM: dts: ipq8074: Add peripheral nodes
  ARM: dts: ipq4019: Add qcom-ipq4019-ap.dk07.1-c2 board file
  ARM: dts: ipq4019: Add qcom-ipq4019-ap.dk07.1-c1 board file
  ARM: dts: ipq4019: Add ipq4019-ap.dk07.1 common data
  ARM: dts: ipq4019: Add qcom-ipq4019-ap.dk04.1-c3 board file
  ARM: dts: ipq4019: Add ipq4019-ap.dk04.1-c1 board file
  ARM: dts: ipq4019: Add ipq4019-ap.dk04.dtsi
  ARM: dts: ipq4019: Change the max opp frequency
  ...
2018-06-11 17:57:38 -07:00
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keystone
Marvell Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info 2018-05-16 13:11:57 -06:00
Microchip Documentation: at91: Update Microchip SoC documentation 2018-02-28 16:21:51 +01:00
nwfpe
OMAP Documentation: ARM: Add new MMC requirements for DRA7/K2G 2018-05-03 10:32:20 -07:00
pxa
SA1100
Samsung
Samsung-S3C24XX mtd: nand: move raw NAND related code to the raw/ subdir 2018-02-16 10:09:34 +01:00
SH-Mobile
SPEAr
sti
stm32 ARM: stm32: add initial support for STM32MP157 2018-03-05 09:08:43 +01:00
sunxi ARM: sunxi: add support for R40 SoC 2017-09-22 21:57:09 +02:00
VFP
00-INDEX Doc: update 00-INDEX files to reflect the runnable code move 2016-10-10 07:12:09 -06:00
Booting docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt
firmware.txt Documentation: arm: Replace use of virt_to_phys with __pa_symbol 2017-07-17 13:43:58 -06:00
Interrupts
IXP4xx
kernel_mode_neon.txt
kernel_user_helpers.txt
mem_alignment arm: Documentation: update a path name 2017-04-20 14:06:55 -06:00
memory.txt
Netwinder
Porting
README
Setup
swp_emulation
tcm.txt
uefi.txt
vlocks.txt

			   ARM Linux 2.6
			   =============

    Please check <ftp://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/armlinux> for
    updates.

Compilation of kernel
---------------------

  In order to compile ARM Linux, you will need a compiler capable of
  generating ARM ELF code with GNU extensions.  GCC 3.3 is known to be
  a good compiler.  Fortunately, you needn't guess.  The kernel will report
  an error if your compiler is a recognized offender.

  To build ARM Linux natively, you shouldn't have to alter the ARCH = line
  in the top level Makefile.  However, if you don't have the ARM Linux ELF
  tools installed as default, then you should change the CROSS_COMPILE
  line as detailed below.

  If you wish to cross-compile, then alter the following lines in the top
  level make file:

    ARCH = <whatever>
	with
    ARCH = arm

	and

    CROSS_COMPILE=
	to
    CROSS_COMPILE=<your-path-to-your-compiler-without-gcc>
	eg.
    CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-

  Do a 'make config', followed by 'make Image' to build the kernel 
  (arch/arm/boot/Image).  A compressed image can be built by doing a 
  'make zImage' instead of 'make Image'.


Bug reports etc
---------------

  Please send patches to the patch system.  For more information, see
  http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/info.php Always include some
  explanation as to what the patch does and why it is needed.

  Bug reports should be sent to linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
  or submitted through the web form at
  http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/ 

  When sending bug reports, please ensure that they contain all relevant
  information, eg. the kernel messages that were printed before/during
  the problem, what you were doing, etc.


Include files
-------------

  Several new include directories have been created under include/asm-arm,
  which are there to reduce the clutter in the top-level directory.  These
  directories, and their purpose is listed below:

   arch-*	machine/platform specific header files
   hardware	driver-internal ARM specific data structures/definitions
   mach		descriptions of generic ARM to specific machine interfaces
   proc-*	processor dependent header files (currently only two
		categories)


Machine/Platform support
------------------------

  The ARM tree contains support for a lot of different machine types.  To
  continue supporting these differences, it has become necessary to split
  machine-specific parts by directory.  For this, the machine category is
  used to select which directories and files get included (we will use
  $(MACHINE) to refer to the category)

  To this end, we now have arch/arm/mach-$(MACHINE) directories which are
  designed to house the non-driver files for a particular machine (eg, PCI,
  memory management, architecture definitions etc).  For all future
  machines, there should be a corresponding arch/arm/mach-$(MACHINE)/include/mach
  directory.


Modules
-------

  Although modularisation is supported (and required for the FP emulator),
  each module on an ARM2/ARM250/ARM3 machine when is loaded will take
  memory up to the next 32k boundary due to the size of the pages.
  Therefore, is modularisation on these machines really worth it?

  However, ARM6 and up machines allow modules to take multiples of 4k, and
  as such Acorn RiscPCs and other architectures using these processors can
  make good use of modularisation.


ADFS Image files
----------------

  You can access image files on your ADFS partitions by mounting the ADFS
  partition, and then using the loopback device driver.  You must have
  losetup installed.

  Please note that the PCEmulator DOS partitions have a partition table at
  the start, and as such, you will have to give '-o offset' to losetup.


Request to developers
---------------------

  When writing device drivers which include a separate assembler file, please
  include it in with the C file, and not the arch/arm/lib directory.  This
  allows the driver to be compiled as a loadable module without requiring
  half the code to be compiled into the kernel image.

  In general, try to avoid using assembler unless it is really necessary.  It
  makes drivers far less easy to port to other hardware.


ST506 hard drives
-----------------

  The ST506 hard drive controllers seem to be working fine (if a little
  slowly).  At the moment they will only work off the controllers on an
  A4x0's motherboard, but for it to work off a Podule just requires
  someone with a podule to add the addresses for the IRQ mask and the
  HDC base to the source.

  As of 31/3/96 it works with two drives (you should get the ADFS
  *configure harddrive set to 2). I've got an internal 20MB and a great
  big external 5.25" FH 64MB drive (who could ever want more :-) ).

  I've just got 240K/s off it (a dd with bs=128k); thats about half of what
  RiscOS gets; but it's a heck of a lot better than the 50K/s I was getting
  last week :-)

  Known bug: Drive data errors can cause a hang; including cases where
  the controller has fixed the error using ECC. (Possibly ONLY
  in that case...hmm).


1772 Floppy
-----------
  This also seems to work OK, but hasn't been stressed much lately.  It
  hasn't got any code for disc change detection in there at the moment which
  could be a bit of a problem!  Suggestions on the correct way to do this
  are welcome.


CONFIG_MACH_ and CONFIG_ARCH_
-----------------------------
  A change was made in 2003 to the macro names for new machines.
  Historically, CONFIG_ARCH_ was used for the bonafide architecture,
  e.g. SA1100, as well as implementations of the architecture,
  e.g. Assabet.  It was decided to change the implementation macros
  to read CONFIG_MACH_ for clarity.  Moreover, a retroactive fixup has
  not been made because it would complicate patching.

  Previous registrations may be found online.

    <http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/>

Kernel entry (head.S)
--------------------------
  The initial entry into the kernel is via head.S, which uses machine
  independent code.  The machine is selected by the value of 'r1' on
  entry, which must be kept unique.

  Due to the large number of machines which the ARM port of Linux provides
  for, we have a method to manage this which ensures that we don't end up
  duplicating large amounts of code.

  We group machine (or platform) support code into machine classes.  A
  class typically based around one or more system on a chip devices, and
  acts as a natural container around the actual implementations.  These
  classes are given directories - arch/arm/mach-<class> and
  arch/arm/mach-<class> - which contain the source files to/include/mach
  support the machine class.  This directories also contain any machine
  specific supporting code.

  For example, the SA1100 class is based upon the SA1100 and SA1110 SoC
  devices, and contains the code to support the way the on-board and off-
  board devices are used, or the device is setup, and provides that
  machine specific "personality."

  For platforms that support device tree (DT), the machine selection is
  controlled at runtime by passing the device tree blob to the kernel.  At
  compile-time, support for the machine type must be selected.  This allows for
  a single multiplatform kernel build to be used for several machine types.

  For platforms that do not use device tree, this machine selection is
  controlled by the machine type ID, which acts both as a run-time and a
  compile-time code selection method.  You can register a new machine via the
  web site at:

    <http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/>

  Note: Please do not register a machine type for DT-only platforms.  If your
  platform is DT-only, you do not need a registered machine type.

---
Russell King (15/03/2004)