[PATCH V6] Add support for generic BCM SoC chipsets
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Tue Nov 20 01:43:23 EST 2012
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:46:10AM -0800, Christian Daudt wrote:
> In order to start upstreaming Broadcom SoC support, create
> a starting hierarchy, arch and dts files.
> The first support SoC family that is planned is the
> BCM281XX (BCM11130/11140/11351/28145/28155) family of dual A9 mobile
> SoC cores.
> This code is just the skeleton code for get the machine upstreamed. It
> has been made MULTIPLATFORM compatible.
> Next steps
> ----------
> Upstream a basic set of drivers - sufficient for a console boot to
> ramdisk. These will includer timer, gpio, i2c drivers.
> After this basic set, we will proceed with a more comprehensive set
> of drivers for the 281XX SoC family.
>
> v2 patch mods
> --------
> - Remove l2x0_of_init call as there were problems with the code.
> A separate patch will be submitted with cache init code
> - Rename capri files and refs to bcm281xx-based names
> - Add bcm281xx binding doc
> - various misc cleanups
>
> v3 patch mods
> -------------
> - Remove extra #include lines
> - Remove remaining references to capri
> - dt uart chipset string added
> - cleaned up chip # references
>
> v4 patch mods
> -------------
> - swap order of compatible definitions for uart
> - fix typo
>
> v5 patch mods
> -------------
> - Rename bcm281xx to bcm11351 in dts+code,
> leaving references to bcm281xx only in help+comments.
>
> v6 patch mods
> -------------
> - fix typo in uart 'compatible' string
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Daudt <csd at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
This looks good, and I don't see any outstanding review comments from
anyone. I've applied it to next/soc, so please send incremental patches for
anything new beyond this point.
Thanks!
-Olof
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