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This patch drops support for AVR32 architecture from the Linux kernel.
The AVR32 architecture is not keeping up with the development of the
kernel, and since it shares so much of the drivers with Atmel ARM SoC,
it is starting to hinder these drivers to develop swiftly.
Also, all AVR32 AP7 SoC processors are end of lifed from Atmel (now
Microchip).
Finally, the GCC toolchain is stuck at version 4.2.x, and has not
received any patches since the last release from Atmel;
4.2.4-atmel.1.1.3.avr32linux.1. When building kernel v4.10, this
toolchain is no longer able to properly link the network stack.
Haavard and I have came to the conclusion that we feel keeping AVR32 on
life support offers more obstacles for Atmel ARMs, than it gives joy to
AVR32 users. I also suspect there are very few AVR32 users left today,
if anybody at all.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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The Hammerhead platform is built around a AVR32 32-bit microcontroller
from Atmel. It offers versatile peripherals, such as ethernet, usb
device, usb host etc.
The board also incooperates a power supply and is a Power over Ethernet
(PoE) Powered Device (PD).
Additonally, a Cyclone III FPGA from Altera is integrated on the board.
The FPGA is mapped into the 32-bit AVR memory bus. The FPGA offers two
DDR2 SDRAM interfaces, which will cover even the most exceptional need
of memory bandwidth. Together with the onboard video decoder the board
is ready for video processing.
This patch does include the basic support for the fpga device driver,
but not the device driver itself.
Signed-off-by: Alex Raimondi <mailinglist@miromico.ch>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
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