Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware
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Linux 7.1 SoCs)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-SoCs
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All of the SoC updates were recently merged for the ongoing [1]Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Most of the activity as usual is on the Arm side but also with some RISC-V additions too for the Linux 7.1 kernel.
For Linux 7.1 there are 12 new SoCs added to the upstream kernel, among other notable changes from the multiple SoC pulls that are now merged to Git. Some of the highlights include:
- Qualcomm Glymur is now upstream as a compute SOC using 18 Oryon-2 CPU cores. Qualcomm Mahua as a Glymur variant with just 12 CPU cores is also upstream.
- Qualcomm Eliza is now upstream as an embedded platform for SM7750-based mobile phones and IOT deployments as the QC7790S/M.
- The Qualcomm IPQ5210 wireless networking SoC is yet another Qualcomm SoC now upstream for Linux 7.1.
- Meanwhile the Qualcomm APQ8084 and IPQ806X SoCs are now removed as they had only very basic support and no actual supported products by the mainline Linux kernel using them.
- Axis ARTPEC-9 support with its Cortex-A55 core layout compared to the ARTPEC-8.
- The ARM Zena virtual platform using Cortex-A720AE cores is now supported.
- The ARM Corstone-1000-A320 reference platform is now supported with its Cortex-A320 cores.
- The 64-bit Microchip LAN9691 SoC is now supported.
- The Renesas RZ/G3L r9a08g046 industrial embedded chip now has mainline support.
- The NXP S32N79 automotive SoC also is now supported.
- The Microsochip PIC64GX as an embedded RISC-V chip using SiFive U54 CPU cores is now supported on the RISC-V 64-bit side.
- The Rockchip RV1103B 32-bit single-core vision processor now has mainline support.
- DT additions for numerous tablets, set-top boxes, industrial/embedded boards, and various Qualcomm devices are now supported.
- As part of [2]the Linux kernel beginning to remove support for Russia's Baikal CPUs , an unused Baikal T1 memory driver is being removed (bt1-l2-ctl).
See [3]the four SoC pulls for Linux 7.1 for details on the many changes now merged for this next kernel version.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.1
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Baikal-CPUs
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c595dc8e-6367-4922-98ed-90bdd4c3c24f@app.fastmail.com/
For Linux 7.1 there are 12 new SoCs added to the upstream kernel, among other notable changes from the multiple SoC pulls that are now merged to Git. Some of the highlights include:
- Qualcomm Glymur is now upstream as a compute SOC using 18 Oryon-2 CPU cores. Qualcomm Mahua as a Glymur variant with just 12 CPU cores is also upstream.
- Qualcomm Eliza is now upstream as an embedded platform for SM7750-based mobile phones and IOT deployments as the QC7790S/M.
- The Qualcomm IPQ5210 wireless networking SoC is yet another Qualcomm SoC now upstream for Linux 7.1.
- Meanwhile the Qualcomm APQ8084 and IPQ806X SoCs are now removed as they had only very basic support and no actual supported products by the mainline Linux kernel using them.
- Axis ARTPEC-9 support with its Cortex-A55 core layout compared to the ARTPEC-8.
- The ARM Zena virtual platform using Cortex-A720AE cores is now supported.
- The ARM Corstone-1000-A320 reference platform is now supported with its Cortex-A320 cores.
- The 64-bit Microchip LAN9691 SoC is now supported.
- The Renesas RZ/G3L r9a08g046 industrial embedded chip now has mainline support.
- The NXP S32N79 automotive SoC also is now supported.
- The Microsochip PIC64GX as an embedded RISC-V chip using SiFive U54 CPU cores is now supported on the RISC-V 64-bit side.
- The Rockchip RV1103B 32-bit single-core vision processor now has mainline support.
- DT additions for numerous tablets, set-top boxes, industrial/embedded boards, and various Qualcomm devices are now supported.
- As part of [2]the Linux kernel beginning to remove support for Russia's Baikal CPUs , an unused Baikal T1 memory driver is being removed (bt1-l2-ctl).
See [3]the four SoC pulls for Linux 7.1 for details on the many changes now merged for this next kernel version.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.1
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Baikal-CPUs
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c595dc8e-6367-4922-98ed-90bdd4c3c24f@app.fastmail.com/