1			SPEAr ARM Linux Overview
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3
4Introduction
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6
7  SPEAr (Structured Processor Enhanced Architecture).
8  weblink : http://www.st.com/spear
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10  The ST Microelectronics SPEAr range of ARM9/CortexA9 System-on-Chip CPUs are
11  supported by the 'spear' platform of ARM Linux. Currently SPEAr1310,
12  SPEAr1340, SPEAr300, SPEAr310, SPEAr320 and SPEAr600 SOCs are supported.
13
14  Hierarchy in SPEAr is as follows:
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16  SPEAr (Platform)
17	- SPEAr3XX (3XX SOC series, based on ARM9)
18		- SPEAr300 (SOC)
19			- SPEAr300 Evaluation Board
20		- SPEAr310 (SOC)
21			- SPEAr310 Evaluation Board
22		- SPEAr320 (SOC)
23			- SPEAr320 Evaluation Board
24	- SPEAr6XX (6XX SOC series, based on ARM9)
25		- SPEAr600 (SOC)
26			- SPEAr600 Evaluation Board
27	- SPEAr13XX (13XX SOC series, based on ARM CORTEXA9)
28		- SPEAr1310 (SOC)
29			- SPEAr1310 Evaluation Board
30		- SPEAr1340 (SOC)
31			- SPEAr1340 Evaluation Board
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33  Configuration
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35
36  A generic configuration is provided for each machine, and can be used as the
37  default by
38	make spear13xx_defconfig
39	make spear3xx_defconfig
40	make spear6xx_defconfig
41
42  Layout
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44
45  The common files for multiple machine families (SPEAr3xx, SPEAr6xx and
46  SPEAr13xx) are located in the platform code contained in arch/arm/plat-spear
47  with headers in plat/.
48
49  Each machine series have a directory with name arch/arm/mach-spear followed by
50  series name. Like mach-spear3xx, mach-spear6xx and mach-spear13xx.
51
52  Common file for machines of spear3xx family is mach-spear3xx/spear3xx.c, for
53  spear6xx is mach-spear6xx/spear6xx.c and for spear13xx family is
54  mach-spear13xx/spear13xx.c. mach-spear* also contain soc/machine specific
55  files, like spear1310.c, spear1340.c spear300.c, spear310.c, spear320.c and
56  spear600.c.  mach-spear* doesn't contains board specific files as they fully
57  support Flattened Device Tree.
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59
60  Document Author
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62
63  Viresh Kumar <viresh.linux@gmail.com>, (c) 2010-2012 ST Microelectronics
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