[PATCH soc/next?] ARM: BCM53573: Initial support for Broadcom BCM53573 SoCs
Jon Mason
jon.mason at broadcom.com
Tue Aug 16 10:52:52 PDT 2016
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>
> BCM53573 series is a new family with embedded wireless. By marketing
> people it's sometimes called Northstar but it uses different CPU and has
> different architecture so we need a new symbol for it.
> Fortunately it shares some peripherals with other iProc based SoCs so we
> will be able to reuse some drivers/bindings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> ---
> Resending as linux-arm-kernel ML rejected my e-mail due to the wrong address:
> bcm-kernel-feedback-list at broadcom.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++++
> arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7304d2e..9e2db2e 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2517,6 +2517,13 @@ F: arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_5301x.c
> F: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm5301x.dtsi
> F: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm470*
>
> +BROADCOM BCM53573 ARM ARCHITECTURE
> +M: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> +L: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> +S: Maintained
> +F: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm53573*
> +F: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47189*
> +
> BROADCOM BCM63XX ARM ARCHITECTURE
> M: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> L: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
> index 5832dba..9a6c3ae 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
> @@ -76,6 +76,21 @@ config ARCH_BCM_5301X
> different SoC or with the older BCM47XX and BCM53XX based
> network SoC using a MIPS CPU, they are supported by arch/mips/bcm47xx
>
> +config ARCH_BCM_53573
> + bool "Broadcom BCM53573 SoC series support"
> + depends on ARCH_MULTI_V7
> + select ARCH_BCM_IPROC
> + select HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER
> +
> + help
> + BCM53573 series is set of SoCs using ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs with wireless
> + embedded in the chipset.
> + This SoC line is mostly used in home routers and is some cheaper
> + alternative for Northstar family.
> +
> + The base chip is BCM53573 and there are some packaging modifications
> + like BCM47189 and BCM47452.
> +
This will put it under the "iProc" section. I think we would want it
under the "Other Architectures" section.
Thanks,
Jon
> comment "KONA architected SoCs"
>
> config ARCH_BCM_MOBILE
> --
> 1.8.4.5
>
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