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  1. Jan 22, 2020
    • Stephan Gerhold's avatar
      board: Add new Samsung "stemmy" board based on ST-Ericsson U8500 · 43d28855
      Stephan Gerhold authored and Tom Rini's avatar Tom Rini committed
      
      The ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC has been used in mass-production for
      some Android smartphones released around 2012.
      In particular, Samsung has released more than 5 different
      smartphones based on U8500, e.g.
      
        - Samsung Galaxy S III mini (GT-I8190) "golden"
        - Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070)  "janice"
        - Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (GT-S7710)   "skomer"
      
      and a few others.
      
      Mainline Linux has great support for the Ux500 SoC, so these
      smartphones can also run Linux mainline quite well.
      
      Unfortunately, the original Samsung bootloader used on these devices
      has limitations that prevent booting Linux mainline directly.
      It keeps the L2 cache enabled, which causes Linux to crash very early,
      shortly after decompressing the kernel.
      
      Using U-Boot allows to circumvent these limitations. We can let the
      Samsung bootloader chain-load U-Boot and U-Boot locks the L2 cache
      before booting into Linux. U-Boot has several other advantages
      - it supports device-trees directly and we are no longer limited to
      flashing Android boot images through Samsung's proprietary download
      mode.
      
      The Samsung "stemmy" board covers all Samsung devices based on U8500.
      Add minimal support for "stemmy". For now only UART is supported but
      this will be extended later.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
      43d28855
    • Tom Rini's avatar
      configs: Resync with savedefconfig · 052170c6
      Tom Rini authored
      
      Rsync all defconfig files using moveconfig.py
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
      052170c6
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