Re: [PATCH 1/6 v8] ARM: Add basic architecture support for VIA/WonderMedia 85xx SoC's

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Dec 20 2010 - 13:15:40 EST


On Sunday 19 December 2010 18:40:17 Alexey Charkov wrote:
> This adds support for the family of Systems-on-Chip produced initially
> by VIA and now its subsidiary WonderMedia that have recently become
> widespread in lower-end Chinese ARM-based tablets and netbooks.
>
> Support is included for both VT8500 and WM8505. Suitable code is
> selected (if compiled in) at early initialization time by reading a
> platform-specific identification register, as current bootloaders
> do not provide any reliable machine id to the kernel.
>
> Included are basic machine initialization files, register and
> interrupt definitions, support for the on-chip interrupt controller,
> high-precision OS timer, GPIO lines, necessary macros for early debug,
> pulse-width-modulated outputs control, as well as platform device
> configurations for the specific drivers implemented elsewhere.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, thanks for addressing all my previous concerns.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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