Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: Add basic support for Airoha EN7523 SoC

Daniel Palmer
2021-09-07T10:45:25Z

Hi Bert,

On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 19:30, Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com> wrote:
>
> From: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
>
> EN7523 is an armv7 based silicon used inside broadband access type devices
> such as xPON and xDSL. It shares various silicon blocks with MediaTek
> silicon such as the MT7622.

This is a Cortex A53 isn't it? So it's ARMv8. I thought the issue is
that it's actually a 64bit system but you only have a 32bit
bootloader, firmware etc?

Off-topic but related: Another MediaTek spin off, SigmaStar, seems to
have done exactly the same thing. Cortex A53 chip running as a 32bit
system to avoid having to fix their software. I'm interested to see if
this makes it into arm or arm64. :)

Cheers,

Daniel