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From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Stefan Schoenleitner <dev.c0debabe@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AT91 kernel programming documentation ?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:01:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730140113.GY8254@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4890724F.2020505@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:53:19PM +0200, Stefan Schoenleitner wrote:
> I'm looking for some good documentation concerning AT91 Linux kernel
> development. Currently I have a Olimex AT91SAM9260 development board
> which is supported by the at91 patch set.

The base functionality is supported in the Linux mainline.

> Now I would like to add different hardware to the board and write some
> kernel code for it.

What kind of hardware?

> Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a lot of documentation. At
> the moment I'm reading mach-at91 related source code and trying to
> find out how things work.

I assume you've already bought a copy of the Rubini Device Driver book?

> Specificly, I would like to know how the different SoC devices can be
> accessed and used, how I can do port multiplexing, how I can tell the
> kernel which hardware is attached to where and so on.

Check arch/arm/mach-at91/*. It very much depends on what you want to do.
Documentation/drivermodel/ might also be worth a look.

rsc
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30 13:53 AT91 kernel programming documentation ? Stefan Schoenleitner
2008-07-30 14:01 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2008-08-01  6:36   ` Stefan Schoenleitner
2008-08-01  8:42     ` Book about embedded-type device drivers Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-01  9:13       ` Markus Franke

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