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  1. Samsung ARM Linux Overview
  2. ==========================
  3. Introduction
  4. ------------
  5. The Samsung range of ARM SoCs spans many similar devices, from the initial
  6. ARM9 through to the newest ARM cores. This document shows an overview of
  7. the current kernel support, how to use it and where to find the code
  8. that supports this.
  9. The currently supported SoCs are:
  10. - S3C24XX: See Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt for full list
  11. - S3C64XX: S3C6400 and S3C6410
  12. - S5P6440
  13. - S5PC100
  14. - S5PC110 / S5PV210
  15. S3C24XX Systems
  16. ---------------
  17. There is still documentation in Documnetation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/ which
  18. deals with the architecture and drivers specific to these devices.
  19. See Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt for more information
  20. on the implementation details and specific support.
  21. Configuration
  22. -------------
  23. A number of configurations are supplied, as there is no current way of
  24. unifying all the SoCs into one kernel.
  25. s5p6440_defconfig - S5P6440 specific default configuration
  26. s5pc100_defconfig - S5PC100 specific default configuration
  27. s5pc110_defconfig - S5PC110 specific default configuration
  28. s5pv210_defconfig - S5PV210 specific default configuration
  29. Layout
  30. ------
  31. The directory layout is currently being restructured, and consists of
  32. several platform directories and then the machine specific directories
  33. of the CPUs being built for.
  34. plat-samsung provides the base for all the implementations, and is the
  35. last in the line of include directories that are processed for the build
  36. specific information. It contains the base clock, GPIO and device definitions
  37. to get the system running.
  38. plat-s3c24xx is for s3c24xx specific builds, see the S3C24XX docs.
  39. plat-s5p is for s5p specific builds, and contains common support for the
  40. S5P specific systems. Not all S5Ps use all the features in this directory
  41. due to differences in the hardware.
  42. Layout changes
  43. --------------
  44. The old plat-s3c and plat-s5pc1xx directories have been removed, with
  45. support moved to either plat-samsung or plat-s5p as necessary. These moves
  46. where to simplify the include and dependency issues involved with having
  47. so many different platform directories.
  48. It was decided to remove plat-s5pc1xx as some of the support was already
  49. in plat-s5p or plat-samsung, with the S5PC110 support added with S5PV210
  50. the only user was the S5PC100. The S5PC100 specific items where moved to
  51. arch/arm/mach-s5pc100.
  52. Port Contributors
  53. -----------------
  54. Ben Dooks (BJD)
  55. Vincent Sanders
  56. Herbert Potzl
  57. Arnaud Patard (RTP)
  58. Roc Wu
  59. Klaus Fetscher
  60. Dimitry Andric
  61. Shannon Holland
  62. Guillaume Gourat (NexVision)
  63. Christer Weinigel (wingel) (Acer N30)
  64. Lucas Correia Villa Real (S3C2400 port)
  65. Document Author
  66. ---------------
  67. Copyright 2009-2010 Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>