linux/init
Bryan Wu 1394f03221 blackfin architecture
This adds support for the Analog Devices Blackfin processor architecture, and
currently supports the BF533, BF532, BF531, BF537, BF536, BF534, and BF561
(Dual Core) devices, with a variety of development platforms including those
avaliable from Analog Devices (BF533-EZKit, BF533-STAMP, BF537-STAMP,
BF561-EZKIT), and Bluetechnix!  Tinyboards.

The Blackfin architecture was jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices
Inc.  (ADI) as the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA) core and introduced it in
December of 2000.  Since then ADI has put this core into its Blackfin
processor family of devices.  The Blackfin core has the advantages of a clean,
orthogonal,RISC-like microprocessor instruction set.  It combines a dual-MAC
(Multiply/Accumulate), state-of-the-art signal processing engine and
single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) multimedia capabilities into a single
instruction-set architecture.

The Blackfin architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the
ADSP-BF53x/BF56x Blackfin Processor Programming Reference
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/download/frsrelease/29/2549/Blackfin_PRM.pdf

The Blackfin processor is already supported by major releases of gcc, and
there are binary and source rpms/tarballs for many architectures at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs There is complete
documentation, including "getting started" guides available at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/ which provides links to the sources and
patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for
bfin-linux-uclibc

This patch, as well as the other patches (toolchain, distribution,
uClibc) are actively supported by Analog Devices Inc, at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/

We have tested this on LTP, and our test plan (including pass/fails) can
be found at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=testing_the_linux_kernel

[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: balance parenthesis in blackfin header files]
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:58 -07:00
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calibrate.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
do_mounts_initrd.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
do_mounts_md.c [PATCH] md: remove MAX_MD_DEVS which is an arbitrary limit 2006-10-03 08:04:18 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code 2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
do_mounts.c [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6] 2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
do_mounts.h Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
initramfs.c [PATCH] Add retain_initrd boot option 2007-02-11 10:51:24 -08:00
Kconfig blackfin architecture 2007-05-07 12:12:58 -07:00
main.c Safer nr_node_ids and nr_node_ids determination and initial values 2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c 2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
noinitramfs.c [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c 2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
version.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00