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,
11 S3C2412, S3C2413, S3C2440 and S3C2442 devices are supported.
13 Support for the S3C2400 series is in progress.
18 A generic S3C2410 configuration is provided, and can be used as the
19 default by `make s3c2410_defconfig`. This configuration has support
20 for all the machines, and the commonly used features on them.
22 Certain machines may have their own default configurations as well,
23 please check the machine specific documentation.
29 The core support files are located in the platform code contained in
30 arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx with headers in include/asm-arm/plat-s3c24xx.
31 This directory should be kept to items shared between the platform
32 code (arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx) and the arch/arm/mach-s3c24* code.
34 Each cpu has a directory with the support files for it, and the
35 machines that carry the device. For example S3C2410 is contained
36 in arch/arm/mach-s3c2410 and S3C2440 in arch/arm/mach-s3c2440
38 Register, kernel and platform data definitions are held in the
39 include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 directory.
45 The currently supported machines are as follows:
47 Simtec Electronics EB2410ITX (BAST)
49 A general purpose development board, see EB2410ITX.txt for further
52 Simtec Electronics IM2440D20 (Osiris)
54 CPU Module from Simtec Electronics, with a S3C2440A CPU, nand flash
55 and a PCMCIA controller.
59 Samsung's own development board, geared for PDA work.
63 The S3C2412 version of the SMDK2440.
67 The S3C2412 version of the SMDK2440.
69 Samsung/Meritech SMDK2440
71 The S3C2440 compatible version of the SMDK2440, which has the
72 option of an S3C2440 or S3C2442 CPU module.
80 Handheld (IPAQ), available in several varieties
84 S3C2440 based IPAQ, with a number of variations depending on
89 A S3C2410 based PDA from Acer. There is a Wiki page at
90 http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/AcerN30Documentation .
94 American Microsystems' M5900
99 Two machines by Nex Vision
105 The architecture has been designed to support as many machines as can
106 be configured for it in one kernel build, and any future additions
107 should keep this in mind before altering items outside of their own
110 Machine definitions should be kept in linux/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410,
111 and there are a number of examples that can be looked at.
113 Read the kernel patch submission policies as well as the
114 Documentation/arm directory before submitting patches. The
115 ARM kernel series is managed by Russell King, and has a patch system
116 located at http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/
117 as well as mailing lists that can be found from the same site.
119 As a courtesy, please notify <ben-linux@fluff.org> of any new
120 machines or other modifications.
122 Any large scale modifications, or new drivers should be discussed
123 on the ARM kernel mailing list (linux-arm-kernel) before being
124 attempted. See http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/ for the
125 mailing list information.
131 The hardware I2C core in the CPU is supported in single master
132 mode, and can be configured via platform data.
138 Support for the onboard RTC unit, including alarm function.
140 This has recently been upgraded to use the new RTC core,
141 and the module has been renamed to rtc-s3c to fit in with
142 the new rtc naming scheme.
148 The onchip watchdog is available via the standard watchdog
155 The current kernels now have support for the s3c2410 NAND
156 controller. If there are any problems the latest linux-mtd
157 code can be found from http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
163 The s3c2410 serial driver provides support for the internal
164 serial ports. These devices appear as /dev/ttySAC0 through 3.
166 To create device nodes for these, use the following commands
168 mknod ttySAC0 c 204 64
169 mknod ttySAC1 c 204 65
170 mknod ttySAC2 c 204 66
176 The core contains support for manipulating the GPIO, see the
177 documentation in GPIO.txt in the same directory as this file.
183 The core provides the interface defined in the header file
184 include/asm-arm/hardware/clock.h, to allow control over the
191 For boards that provide support for suspend to RAM, the
192 system can be placed into low power suspend.
194 See Suspend.txt for more information.
200 SPI drivers are available for both the in-built hardware
201 (although there is no DMA support yet) and a generic
208 There is support for GPIO based LEDs via a platform driver
209 in the LED subsystem.
215 Whenever a device has platform specific data that is specified
216 on a per-machine basis, care should be taken to ensure the
219 1) that default data is not left in the device to confuse the
220 driver if a machine does not set it at startup
222 2) the data should (if possible) be marked as __initdata,
223 to ensure that the data is thrown away if the machine is
224 not the one currently in use.
226 The best way of doing this is to make a function that
227 kmalloc()s an area of memory, and copies the __initdata
228 and then sets the relevant device's platform data. Making
229 the function `__init` takes care of ensuring it is discarded
230 with the rest of the initialisation code
232 static __init void s3c24xx_xxx_set_platdata(struct xxx_data *pd)
234 struct s3c2410_xxx_mach_info *npd;
236 npd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct s3c2410_xxx_mach_info), GFP_KERNEL);
238 memcpy(npd, pd, sizeof(struct s3c2410_xxx_mach_info));
239 s3c_device_xxx.dev.platform_data = npd;
241 printk(KERN_ERR "no memory for xxx platform data\n");
245 Note, since the code is marked as __init, it should not be
246 exported outside arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/, or exported to
247 modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and related functions.
261 Guillaume Gourat (NexVision)
262 Christer Weinigel (wingel) (Acer N30)
263 Lucas Correia Villa Real (S3C2400 port)
269 Ben Dooks, (c) 2004-2005,2006 Simtec Electronics