Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Arm-netbook] [advice sought] EOMA68 kernel support | From | Henrik Nordström <> | Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:40:08 +0100 |
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lör 2012-03-10 klockan 06:45 +0000 skrev lkcl luke:
> ... so, real simple very basic, concrete and necessary question: > where the hell in the linux kernel tree should support for eoma68 be > added??
Good question.
There is two parts of eoma68 relevant to this
First, there is the capabilitities of the CPU card itself.
Second, there is the I/O board it gets connected to.
These two parts need to be matched, resulting in a device tree or similar for the actual system in it's current form, and is something that may even change dynamically at suspend/resume. The I/O board may cause different I/O profiles to be selected bu the CPU card. A theoretical example would be one configuraiton having LCD, the other doing 10 UARTs on the same lines. This requires the CPU card to adopt in which hardware devices it activates, something ARM SoCs is quite good at and A10 in particular.
We do not know yet which I/O profiles of EOMA will be available or used for. The current profile is based on the expected initial target systems.
The EOMA connector in itself is a kind of I/O bus.
Regards Henrik
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