[PATCH v7] arm: Add basic support for new Marvell Armada 370 and Armada XP SoC

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Tue Jul 3 13:20:40 EDT 2012


On 02/07/12 16:39, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Arnd, Olof,
>
> You'll find in this patch set the seventh version of the initial
> support for a new family of ARMv7-compatible Marvell SoCs.
>
> As for the previous releases, both the Armada 370 and the Armada XP
> SoCs are supported in this directory, and we are able to build a
> single kernel image that boots on both SoCs. Both SoCs use the PJ4B
> processor, a Marvell-developed ARM core that implements the ARMv7
> instruction set. We are currently using Marvell evaluation boards for
> both of those SoCs, and the support for those boards is added in this
> patch set.
>
> We remained focused on a limited preliminary support which only
> includes the necessary code for timer and IRQ support, the serial
> controller is a standard 16550-compatible one. The diffstat looks
> like:

I've built and it got to looking for a root-fs.

Tested-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk>

I will have another run through the series tomorrow and do a last
pass review.


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