[PATCH v2][RFC] arm: Add basic support for VIA/WonderMedia SoC's

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Jul 16 07:13:04 EDT 2010


On Thursday 15 July 2010, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> This adds basic support for machine initialization, interrupts, timers and
> serial console on VIA/WonderMedia VT8500 and WM8505 Systems-on-Chip.
> 
> These SoC's are used in quite many netbooks and tablets produced in China
> and sold online at relatively low prices (typically below 100 USD).
> 
> Support for WM8505 is known incomplete, while VT8500 is tested by me on the
> hardware and at least prints kernel messages to the serial console with timing
> information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> This is a second attempt, I tried to implement all the comments that I've
> received previously. Please comment and, if possible, integrate. Serial
> driver will follow separately.

No more comments from my side, looks good so far. I hope to get my toy
with this soon so I can try out the code.

	Arnd



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