On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Madhavi Manchala <madhavi.linux@gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:53 PM, spinlock cp <spinlock.cp@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Madhavi Manchala <
madhavi.linux@gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear All,
Does Linux kernel supports the Samsung S3C2510A processor? Why am I asking this question is, when I looked into the arch/arm/ directory I did not find any thing which is related to Samsung S3C2510A processor. There are other directories like mach-s3c24xx and mach-s3c64xx directories, but not mach-s3c25xx.
I checked this in 2.6.37 kernel version which is a stable one.
Hi Madahvi
Is S3C2510A is an ARM based core ? Linux does not specicallly support the processor family that you've askd for. For list of supported architetucte you can refer to this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_supported_architectures
Hi Spinlock,
OK. The Linux supports the ARM architecture. That is true. Then, why they mentioned different directories under arch/arm directory like mach-s3c2400, mach-s3c2410, mach-s3c2412, mach-s3c2440, mach-s3c2442, etc. Then, no need to mention all these sub directories in that arch/arm directory. Am I correct?
mach-s3c2400 , mach-s3c2410 etc are part of Samsung S3C24XX seeirs - ARM 9 based family. Each of these folder contains platform specific code. The corresponding hearder files are located in include/asm-asrm/plat-s3c24xx directories.
Please think once. May be we need to add some files which are necessary for S3C2510A processor in the arch/arm/ directory in the form of something like a directory name s3c2510a. What do you say?
Yes, you're right , you willl need a platform specific port for S3C2510A. I'm not sure S3C25XX based port is avialble or not. It would also be helpful to you , if you can go through this chapter from , Linux kernel doucmentation. http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.37/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overvie... The Section 3 should be able to give you more insight.
Thanks and Regards, Madhavi M.
~Spinlock
Please sugget me.
Thanks and Regards, Madhavi M.
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