ARM: New SoC family support
Two new SoC families are added this time.
Sugaya Taichi submitted support for the Milbeaut SoC family from
Socionext and explains:
"SC2000 is a SoC of the Milbeaut series. equipped with a DSP optimized for
computer vision. It also features advanced functionalities such as 360-degree,
real-time spherical stitching with multi cameras, image stabilization for
without mechanical gimbals, and rolling shutter correction. More detail is
below:
https://www.socionext.com/en/products/assp/milbeaut/SC2000.html"
Interestingly, this one has a history dating back to older chips
made by Socionext and previously Matsushita/Panasonic based on their
own mn10300 CPU architecture that was removed from the kernel last year.
Manivannan Sadhasivam adds support for another SoC family, this is the
Bitmain BM1880 chip used in the Sophon Edge TPU developer board.
The chip is intended for Deep Learning applications, and comes
with dual-core Arm Cortex-A53 to run Linux as well as a RISC-V
microcontroller core to control the tensor unit.
For the moment, the TPU is not accessible in mainline Linux, so
we treat it as a generic Arm SoC.
More information is available at https://www.sophon.ai/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Merge branch 'milbeaut/newsoc' into arm/newsoc
Sugaya Taichi <sugaya.taichi@socionext.com> explains:
Here is the series of patches the initial support for SC2000(M10V) of
Milbeaut SoCs. "M10V" is the internal name of SC2000, so commonly used in
source code.
SC2000 is a SoC of the Milbeaut series. equipped with a DSP optimized for
computer vision. It also features advanced functionalities such as 360-degree,
real-time spherical stitching with multi cameras, image stabilization for
without mechanical gimbals, and rolling shutter correction. More detail is
below:
https://www.socionext.com/en/products/assp/milbeaut/SC2000.html
Specifications for developers are below:
- Quad-core 32bit Cortex-A7 on ARMv7-A architecture
- NEON support
- DSP
- GPU
- MAX 3GB DDR3
- Cortex-M0 for power control
- NAND Flash Interface
- SD UHS-I
- SD UHS-II
- SDIO
- USB2.0 HOST / Device
- USB3.0 HOST / Device
- PCI express Gen2
- Ethernet Engine
- I2C
- UART
- SPI
- PWM
Support is quite minimal for now, since it only includes timer, clock,
pictrl and serial controller drivers, so we can only boot to userspace
through initramfs. Support for the other peripherals will come eventually.
* milbeaut/newsoc:
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: add ARCH_MILBEAUT and ARCH_MILBEAUT_M10V
ARM: configs: Add Milbeaut M10V defconfig
ARM: dts: milbeaut: Add device tree set for the Milbeaut M10V board
clocksource/drivers/timer-milbeaut: Introduce timer for Milbeaut SoCs
dt-bindings: timer: Add Milbeaut M10V timer description
ARM: milbeaut: Add basic support for Milbeaut m10v SoC
dt-bindings: Add documentation for Milbeaut SoCs
dt-bindings: arm: Add SMP enable-method for Milbeaut
dt-bindings: sram: milbeaut: Add binding for Milbeaut smp-sram
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1551243056-10521-1-git-send-email-sugaya.taichi@socionext.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
