Merge tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"We get support for three new 32-bit SoC platforms this time.
The amount of changes in arch/arm for any of them is miniscule, as all
the interesting code is in device driver subsystems (irqchip, clk,
pinctrl, ...) these days. I'm listing them here, as the addition of
the Kconfig statement is the main relevant milestone for a new
platform. In each case, some drivers are are shared with existing
platforms, while other drivers are added for v4.7 as well, or come in
a later release.
- The Aspeed platform is probably the most interesting one, this is
what most whitebox servers use as their baseboard management
controller. We get support for the very common ast2400 and ast2500
SoCs. The OpenBMC project focuses on this chip, and the LWN
article about their ELC 2016 presentation at
https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/
triggered the submission, but the code comes from IBM's OpenPOWER
team rather than the team at Facebook. There are still a lot more
drivers that need to get added over time, and I hope both teams can
work together on that.
- OXNAS is an old platform for Network Attached Storage devices from
Oxford Semiconductor. There are models with ARM10 (!) and
ARM11MPCore cores, but for now, we only support the original ARM9
based versions. The product lineup was subsequently part of PLX,
Avago and now the new Broadcom Ltd.
- V2M-MPS2 is a prototyping platform from ARM for their Cortex-M
cores and is related to the existing Realview / Versatile Express
lineup, but without MMU.
We now support various NOMMU platforms, so adding a new one is
fairly straightforward.