From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:58:34 -0500 Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/5] arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC In-Reply-To: <20200104174519.19238-4-stephan@gerhold.net> References: <20200104174519.19238-1-stephan@gerhold.net> <20200104174519.19238-4-stephan@gerhold.net> Message-ID: <20200123215834.GL26536@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 > Cc: John Rigby > Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold > Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: