Linux 7.0 Bringing Mainline Support For The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC, Qualcomm Kaanapali
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Linux 7.0 SoCs)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-SoC-Pulls
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The various SoC and platform Device Tree additions were sent out today for the [1]Linux 7.0 kernel. Easily most exciting on the SoC side this cycle among the ARM and RISC-V changes is getting support ready for the SpacemiT K3 RVA23 SoC.
Sent out today were the four pull requests of all the SoC feature changes for Linux 7.0. Highlights include:
- SpacemiT Key Stone K3 support for that 8-core RISC-V processor and [2]the first widely-available RVA23 implementation . Great seeing the SpacemiT K3 making it to the mainline kernel with this chip being important for driving RISC-V RVA23 adoption. Hopefully we see some SpacemiT K3 haardware soon in the lab for testing. The eight RISC-V RVA23 cores clock up to 2.4GHz.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 "Kaanapali" SoC support with its eight Oryon CPU cores.
- Support for the cut-down NXP i.MX8QP and i.MX952 SoCs.
- Realtek Kent family support with the rtd1501s, rtd1861b and rtd1920 chips. This hardware is for settop boxes and NAS devices.
- Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SM7635 SoC support as used by the Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone.
- New firmware drivers for the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem plus updates to the AMD, NXP, and Qualcomm TEE drivers.
- Mediatek MT8196 dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) power management.
- Qualcomm SCM firmware and MDT loading work as part of the Snapdragon X2 "Glymur" work.
- Enabling Apple Silicon drivers as part of the ARM64 default kernel configuration.
More details on these SoC changes via the [3]pull requests .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.0
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-SpacemiT-K3
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a34ea40f-e0d3-459b-8233-9f87f6cd73e5@app.fastmail.com/
Sent out today were the four pull requests of all the SoC feature changes for Linux 7.0. Highlights include:
- SpacemiT Key Stone K3 support for that 8-core RISC-V processor and [2]the first widely-available RVA23 implementation . Great seeing the SpacemiT K3 making it to the mainline kernel with this chip being important for driving RISC-V RVA23 adoption. Hopefully we see some SpacemiT K3 haardware soon in the lab for testing. The eight RISC-V RVA23 cores clock up to 2.4GHz.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 "Kaanapali" SoC support with its eight Oryon CPU cores.
- Support for the cut-down NXP i.MX8QP and i.MX952 SoCs.
- Realtek Kent family support with the rtd1501s, rtd1861b and rtd1920 chips. This hardware is for settop boxes and NAS devices.
- Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SM7635 SoC support as used by the Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone.
- New firmware drivers for the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) subsystem plus updates to the AMD, NXP, and Qualcomm TEE drivers.
- Mediatek MT8196 dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) power management.
- Qualcomm SCM firmware and MDT loading work as part of the Snapdragon X2 "Glymur" work.
- Enabling Apple Silicon drivers as part of the ARM64 default kernel configuration.
More details on these SoC changes via the [3]pull requests .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.0
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-SpacemiT-K3
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a34ea40f-e0d3-459b-8233-9f87f6cd73e5@app.fastmail.com/