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| author | viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> | 2010-04-01 12:31:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-04-14 11:34:37 +0100 |
| commit | fc0c195aa8877fd46d837c8c4a9a61386a124401 (patch) | |
| tree | 47d56e75fa216ff35cc8842457a03126bc83bfe1 /Documentation/arm/SPEAr/overview.txt | |
| parent | bc4e814e5d5e2851f0a0679eaad14f60abae2a6d (diff) | |
ARM: 6018/1: ST SPEAr: Updated Maintainers and added Documentation/arm/SPEAr
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linux.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SPEAr/overview.txt b/Documentation/arm/SPEAr/overview.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..253a35c6f782 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm/SPEAr/overview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ + SPEAr ARM Linux Overview + ========================== + +Introduction +------------ + + SPEAr (Structured Processor Enhanced Architecture). + weblink : http://www.st.com/spear + + The ST Microelectronics SPEAr range of ARM9/CortexA9 System-on-Chip CPUs are + supported by the 'spear' platform of ARM Linux. Currently SPEAr300, + SPEAr310, SPEAr320 and SPEAr600 SOCs are supported. Support for the SPEAr13XX + series is in progress. + + Hierarchy in SPEAr is as follows: + + SPEAr (Platform) + - SPEAr3XX (3XX SOC series, based on ARM9) + - SPEAr300 (SOC) + - SPEAr300_EVB (Evaluation Board) + - SPEAr310 (SOC) + - SPEAr310_EVB (Evaluation Board) + - SPEAr320 (SOC) + - SPEAr320_EVB (Evaluation Board) + - SPEAr6XX (6XX SOC series, based on ARM9) + - SPEAr600 (SOC) + - SPEAr600_EVB (Evaluation Board) + - SPEAr13XX (13XX SOC series, based on ARM CORTEXA9) + - SPEAr1300 (SOC) + + Configuration + ------------- + + A generic configuration is provided for each machine, and can be used as the + default by + make spear600_defconfig + make spear300_defconfig + make spear310_defconfig + make spear320_defconfig + + Layout + ------ + + The common files for multiple machine families (SPEAr3XX, SPEAr6XX and + SPEAr13XX) are located in the platform code contained in arch/arm/plat-spear + with headers in plat/. + + Each machine series have a directory with name arch/arm/mach-spear followed by + series name. Like mach-spear3xx, mach-spear6xx and mach-spear13xx. + + Common file for machines of spear3xx family is mach-spear3xx/spear3xx.c and for + spear6xx is mach-spear6xx/spear6xx.c. mach-spear* also contain soc/machine + specific files, like spear300.c, spear310.c, spear320.c and spear600.c. + mach-spear* also contains board specific files for each machine type. + + + Document Author + --------------- + + Viresh Kumar, (c) 2010 ST Microelectronics |