From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/5] arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:58:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200123215834.GL26536@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200104174519.19238-4-stephan@gerhold.net>
On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 06:45:17PM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> The NovaThor U8500 SoC was released by ST-Ericsson in 2011.
> It was used for some development boards like the CALAO Systems
> Snowball SBC, but mass production was primarily for Android
> smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S III mini.
>
> Previous support for U8500 was removed in
> commit 68282f55b846 ("arm: Remove unused ST-Ericsson u8500 arch")
> since none of the boards were converted to generic boards
> before the deadline.
>
> The new code does not have much in common with the previous code.
> I have completely rewritten everything, embracing the Driver Model
> and device trees wherever possible.
>
> The U8500 support is a bit more minimal for now - my primary
> use case is to use U-Boot as alternative bootloader for some of the
> U8500 Samsung smartphones. At the moment U-Boot is chain-loaded from
> the original Samsung bootloader. A side effect of this is that we
> can (temporarily) get away without implementing some functionality
> - e.g. all clocks are already enabled by the original bootloader.
>
> More functionality will be added in future patches.
>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
> Cc: John Rigby <john.rigby@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-04 17:45 [RFC PATCH 0/5] arm: Restore minimal support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC Stephan Gerhold
2020-01-04 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] timer: Add driver for Nomadik Multi Timer Unit (MTU) Stephan Gerhold
2020-01-06 1:48 ` Linus Walleij
2020-01-23 21:58 ` Tom Rini
2020-01-04 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] arm: dts: Import device tree for ST-Ericsson Ux500 Stephan Gerhold
2020-01-06 1:48 ` Linus Walleij
2020-01-23 21:58 ` Tom Rini
2020-01-04 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC Stephan Gerhold
2020-01-06 1:49 ` Linus Walleij
2020-01-23 21:58 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2020-01-04 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] MAINTAINERS: Add ARM U8500 Stephan Gerhold
2020-01-06 1:50 ` Linus Walleij
2020-01-23 21:58 ` Tom Rini
2020-01-04 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] board: Add new Samsung "stemmy" board based on ST-Ericsson U8500 Stephan Gerhold
2020-01-06 1:50 ` Linus Walleij
2020-01-23 21:58 ` Tom Rini
2020-01-22 16:47 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] arm: Restore minimal support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC Stephan Gerhold
2020-01-22 18:03 ` Tom Rini
2020-01-23 17:56 ` Stephan Gerhold
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