1 S3C24XX ARM Linux Overview
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9 The Samsung S3C24XX range of ARM9 System-on-Chip CPUs are supported
10 by the 's3c2410' architecture of ARM Linux. Currently the S3C2410 and
11 the S3C2440 are supported CPUs.
13 Support for the S3C2400 series is in progress.
19 A generic S3C2410 configuration is provided, and can be used as the
20 default by `make s3c2410_defconfig`. This configuration has support
21 for all the machines, and the commonly used features on them.
23 Certain machines may have their own default configurations as well,
24 please check the machine specific documentation.
30 The currently supported machines are as follows:
32 Simtec Electronics EB2410ITX (BAST)
34 A general purpose development board, see EB2410ITX.txt for further
37 Simtec Electronics IM2440D20 (Osiris)
39 CPU Module from Simtec Electronics, with a S3C2440A CPU, nand flash
40 and a PCMCIA controller.
44 Samsung's own development board, geared for PDA work.
46 Samsung/Meritech SMDK2440
48 The S3C2440 compatible version of the SMDK2440
56 Handheld (IPAQ), available in several varieties
60 S3C2440 based IPAQ, with a number of variations depending on
65 A S3C2410 based PDA from Acer. There is a Wiki page at
66 http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/AcerN30Documentation .
72 The archicture has been designed to support as many machines as can
73 be configured for it in one kernel build, and any future additions
74 should keep this in mind before altering items outside of their own
77 Machine definitions should be kept in linux/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410,
78 and there are a number of examples that can be looked at.
80 Read the kernel patch submission policies as well as the
81 Documentation/arm directory before submitting patches. The
82 ARM kernel series is managed by Russell King, and has a patch system
83 located at http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/
84 as well as mailing lists that can be found from the same site.
86 As a courtesy, please notify <ben-linux@fluff.org> of any new
87 machines or other modifications.
89 Any large scale modifications, or new drivers should be discussed
90 on the ARM kernel mailing list (linux-arm-kernel) before being
91 attempted. See http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/ for the
92 mailing list information.
98 The hardware I2C core in the CPU is supported in single master
99 mode, and can be configured via platform data.
105 Support for the onboard RTC unit, including alarm function.
111 The onchip watchdog is available via the standard watchdog
118 The current kernels now have support for the s3c2410 NAND
119 controller. If there are any problems the latest linux-mtd
120 CVS can be found from http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
126 The s3c2410 serial driver provides support for the internal
127 serial ports. These devices appear as /dev/ttySAC0 through 3.
129 To create device nodes for these, use the following commands
131 mknod ttySAC0 c 204 64
132 mknod ttySAC1 c 204 65
133 mknod ttySAC2 c 204 66
139 The core contains support for manipulating the GPIO, see the
140 documentation in GPIO.txt in the same directory as this file.
146 The core provides the interface defined in the header file
147 include/asm-arm/hardware/clock.h, to allow control over the
154 For boards that provide support for suspend to RAM, the
155 system can be placed into low power suspend.
157 See Suspend.txt for more information.
163 Whenever a device has platform specific data that is specified
164 on a per-machine basis, care should be taken to ensure the
167 1) that default data is not left in the device to confuse the
168 driver if a machine does not set it at startup
170 2) the data should (if possible) be marked as __initdata,
171 to ensure that the data is thrown away if the machine is
172 not the one currently in use.
174 The best way of doing this is to make a function that
175 kmalloc()s an area of memory, and copies the __initdata
176 and then sets the relevant device's platform data. Making
177 the function `__init` takes care of ensuring it is discarded
178 with the rest of the initialisation code
180 static __init void s3c24xx_xxx_set_platdata(struct xxx_data *pd)
182 struct s3c2410_xxx_mach_info *npd;
184 npd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct s3c2410_xxx_mach_info), GFP_KERNEL);
186 memcpy(npd, pd, sizeof(struct s3c2410_xxx_mach_info));
187 s3c_device_xxx.dev.platform_data = npd;
189 printk(KERN_ERR "no memory for xxx platform data\n");
193 Note, since the code is marked as __init, it should not be
194 exported outside arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/, or exported to
195 modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related functions.
209 Guillaume Gourat (NexVision)
210 Christer Weinigel (wingel) (Acer N30)
211 Lucas Correia Villa Real (S3C2400 port)
217 05 Sep 2004 - BJD - Added Document Changes section
218 05 Sep 2004 - BJD - Added Klaus Fetscher to list of contributors
219 25 Oct 2004 - BJD - Added Dimitry Andric to list of contributors
220 25 Oct 2004 - BJD - Updated the MTD from the 2.6.9 merge
221 21 Jan 2005 - BJD - Added rx3715, added Shannon to contributors
222 10 Feb 2005 - BJD - Added Guillaume Gourat to contributors
223 02 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added SMDK2440 to list of machines
224 06 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added Christer Weinigel
225 08 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added LCVR to list of people, updated introduction
226 08 Mar 2005 - BJD - Added section on adding machines
227 09 Sep 2005 - BJD - Added section on platform data
228 11 Feb 2006 - BJD - Added I2C, RTC and Watchdog sections
229 11 Feb 2006 - BJD - Added Osiris machine, and S3C2400 information
235 Ben Dooks, (c) 2004-2005,2006 Simtec Electronics