[PATCH v2 0/7] SH Mobile sh_flctl driver brush up

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Fri Mar 9 07:42:22 EST 2012


On Friday 09 March 2012 14:37:12 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:14 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > ARCH_SHMOBILE is an ARM platform (defined in arch/arm/Kconfig).
> 
> Hmm, ok, thanks. So you say that
> 
> http://www.renesas.eu/products/soc/assp/mobile/sh_mobile/mt1/index.jsp
> 
> saying "CPU core: sh4a" actually means ARM? I must be very confused :-)

Don't trust marketing materiel ;-)

I'm not sure about that exact chip, but the SH-Mobile architecture supported 
by the Linux kernel (and renamed to R-Mobile for recent Renesas products) is 
ARM-based, with an SH-based multimedia coprocessor in most (all ?) models.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart




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