Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:54:54 +0200 | From | Hauke Mehrtens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add initial support for Broadcom Cygnus SoC |
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On 09/19/2014 12:39 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 09/18/2014 03:31 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> On 09/16/2014 09:58 PM, Jonathan Richardson wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This patchset contains initial support for Broadcom's Cygnus SoC based on our >>> iProc architecture. Initial support is minimal and includes just the mach >>> platform code, clock driver, and a basic device tree configuration. Peripheral >>> drivers will be submitted soon, as will device tree configurations for other >>> Cygnus board variants. >> >> This SoC looks similar to the BCM5301X (Northstar) SoCs even some cores >> are at the same memory addresses. Does this SoC use an AXI bus with >> Broadcom Plugins at address 0x18000000 ? >> >> The BCM5301X (Northstar) SoCs also has an iProc Clock Control Unit and I >> will try to use your driver for that SoC. >> >> Is Broadcom Cygnus similar to BCM563XX or is it actually the same SoC? > > According to this link: > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-August/186086.html > > these SoCs, in particular BCM58622 would belong to the StrataGX network > processors: > http://www.broadcom.com/products/Processors/Home-and-Small-Business/BCM5862X-Series.
Broadcom claims that this SoC is pin and software compatible to BCM5301X: > Pin compatible and software compatible products with previous > generation BCM5301x products enable single design with easy > upgradeable path
>> Do you have some description of the hardware features of this SoC? Does >> it have PCIe, or Ethernet? > > From the link above, it has Ethernet for sure, and certainly PCIe since > the Wi-Fi chips mentioned in the link above are PCIe chips. > > It would be really good if all the work you and Rafal did was usable for > the Cygnus SoCs.
I also hope you can use much of the code and improve it. ;-)
Hauke
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