[PATCH] airoha: Add new target platform

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Wed Aug 3 11:56:10 PDT 2022


On 8/1/22 18:16, Daniel Danzberger wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 14:53 +0200, Robert Marko wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 14:50, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to buy devices with this SoC in the retail market or on ebay?
>>>
>>> On 7/27/22 13:57, Daniel Danzberger wrote:
>>>> Airoha is a new ARM platform based on Cortex A7 which has recently been
>>>> merged into linux-next.
>>
>> Is this the one where A53 core is being limited to AArch32 by the BootROM?
>>
> Yes, that's the case.

Why would anyone do this?

I trust you that this SoC is strange, but I do not understand why 
someone would do this. Is aarch64 broken in this SoC and this is their 
software workaround?

Hauke



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