[PATCH 0/6] Add basic support for Allwinner A1X SoCs

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Nov 16 08:11:34 EST 2012


Dear Maxime Ripard,

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:19 +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:

> You'll find in this patchset the initial support for Allwinner A10 and A13 SoCs
> from Allwinner. Since the internal name of these SoCs are sun4i and sun5i, the
> mach- directory is named sunxi.
> 
> You can find these SoCs in the Cubieboard, the A13-olinuxino or the Melee
> A1000.
> 
> Both SoCs should work fine, as the A13 is a trimmed down version of the A10,
> but it has only been tested on a A13-OlinuXino from Olimex.
> 
> Support is quite minimal for now, since it only includes timer and IRQ
> controller drivers, so we can only boot to userspace through initramfs. Support
> for the other peripherals on these SoCs will come eventually.

Would you mind adding a file Documentation/arm/sunxi/README (or another
name) that lists the SoCs that are supported and the public datasheets
that are available for those SoCs?

I think it's always great to ease the process of finding the SoC
datasheets.

Thanks!

Thomas
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