[PATCH V2 soc/next?] ARM: BCM53573: Initial support for Broadcom BCM53573 SoCs

Anca Emanuel anca.emanuel at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 14:47:26 PDT 2016


@Jon Mason: did you read this
https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/Cb5nY4yH6pd ?
Your email was in the spam folder on my gmail account. I manually
select this as not spam.
Please read Linus Torvalds message on G+ above. And tell to others in
the same situation.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Jon Mason <jon.mason at broadcom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 1:01 PM, 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>
>
> Looks good to me!
>
> Acked-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason at broadcom.com>
>
>
>> ---
>> V2: Put new symbol under "Other Architectures"
>> ---
>>  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..6dfdc82 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
>> @@ -157,6 +157,21 @@ config ARCH_BCM2835
>>           This enables support for the Broadcom BCM2835 and BCM2836 SoCs.
>>           This SoC is used in the Raspberry Pi and Roku 2 devices.
>>
>> +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.
>> +
>>  config ARCH_BCM_63XX
>>         bool "Broadcom BCM63xx DSL SoC"
>>         depends on ARCH_MULTI_V7
>> --
>> 2.9.3
>>
>
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