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1Kernel driver vexpress
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4Supported systems:
5 * ARM Ltd. Versatile Express platform
6 Prefix: 'vexpress'
7 Datasheets:
8 * "Hardware Description" sections of the Technical Reference Manuals
9 for the Versatile Express boards:
10 http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.subset.boards.express/index.html
11 * Section "4.4.14. System Configuration registers" of the V2M-P1 TRM:
12 http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0447-/index.html
13
14Author: Pawel Moll
15
16Description
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18
19Versatile Express platform (http://www.arm.com/versatileexpress/) is a
20reference & prototyping system for ARM Ltd. processors. It can be set up
21from a wide range of boards, each of them containing (apart of the main
22chip/FPGA) a number of microcontrollers responsible for platform
23configuration and control. Theses microcontrollers can also monitor the
24board and its environment by a number of internal and external sensors,
25providing information about power lines voltages and currents, board
26temperature and power usage. Some of them also calculate consumed energy
27and provide a cumulative use counter.
28
29The configuration devices are _not_ memory mapped and must be accessed
30via a custom interface, abstracted by the "vexpress_config" API.
31
32As these devices are non-discoverable, they must be described in a Device
33Tree passed to the kernel. Details of the DT binding for them can be found
34in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/vexpress.txt.