Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v6.6 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v6.6.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v6.6.23
- Add support for SAM9x75 Curiosity board
- Add support for LAN8840 EDS2 Daughter Card
- Fix suspend / resume for LAN8840 Gigabit Ethernet PHY
- Add support for AC69T88A LVDS Display WVGA Rev 1
- Fix DDR self-refresh impedance calibration for SAMA7G5
- Add ADC hardware trigger support for SAM9x75
- Fix ASOC: CLASSD platform driver initialization
- Add support for MIPI DSI controller for SAM9x75
- Add support for Microchip AC40T08A MIPI Display
- Update WILC firmware and driver for Linux 6.6
- Fix VDEC driver for Linux 6.6
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v6.6 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v6.6.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v6.6.23
- Add support for SAM9x75 Curiosity board
- Add support for LAN8840 EDS2 Daughter Card
- Fix suspend / resume for LAN8840 Gigabit Ethernet PHY
- Add support for AC69T88A LVDS Display WVGA Rev 1
- Fix DDR self-refresh impedance calibration for SAMA7G5
- Add ADC hardware trigger support for SAM9x75
- Fix ASOC: CLASSD platform driver initialization
- Add support for MIPI DSI controller for SAM9x75
- Add support for Microchip AC40T08A MIPI Display
- Update WILC firmware and driver for Linux 6.6
- Fix VDEC driver for Linux 6.6
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v6.1 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v6.1.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v6.1.55
- Add initial support for SAM9x75 Curiosity
- Add initial support for SAMA5D29 Curiosity
- Add SAM9x75 XLCD controller driver
- Add Sitronix ST7262 panel support
- Add AC69T88A LVDS Display Panel
- Add SAM9x75 QSPI controller driver
- Add SAM9x75 NAND controller driver
- Display in kernel config in /proc/config.gz
- Crypto: fallback for unsupported ESP header, match AES CBC block size with generic implementation
- IIO: add support for MCP3564 - 2/4/8 channel 153.6 ksps low-noise 24 bit Delta-Sigma ADC
- Add initial support for RNBD451 Bluetooth® Low Energy Module
- Add support for AT25FF321A 4MB SPI flash memory
- Add support for LAN8830, LAN8840, LAN8840, KSZ8091, KSZ9477, VSC8541 Ethernet PHY
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v6.1 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v6.1.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v6.1.22
- Runtime PM support for at_xdmac DMA driver
- System suspend/resume for at_xdmac DMA driver
- Fixes for at_xdmac DMA driver to avoid failure on DMA channels on system suspend/resume
- Runtime PM support for Microchip SPDIFTX driver
- System suspend/resume support for Microchip SPDIFTX driver
- Cleanups and improvements for Microchip SPDIFTX driver
- Runtime PM support for Microchip PDMC driver
- System suspend/resume support for Microchip PDMC driver
- Fix poc noises when starting capture for Microchip PDMC driver
- Runtime PM support for Microchip SPDIFRX driver
- System suspend/resume support for Microchip SPDIFRX driver
- Fix controls for Microchip SPDIFRX driver to avoid concurrency on hardware resources
- Cleanups and improvements for Microchip SPDIFRX driver
- Removed atmel-sdramc driver and handle the clocks on proper clock drivers
- Fix imbalanced reference counter on Ethernet device that made ULP modes to fail
- Runtime PM support on SPI driver
- Delay timer support on Microchip PIT64B driver
- Cleanups on pinctrl driver to avoid potential leaks and simplify code
- Support for line bias flags that have been implemented in gpio API for at91 pio4 pinctrl driver
- Support for push-pull configuration in at91 pio4 pinctrl driver
- Zero length message digest support for hmac in atmel-sha driver
- Detection of in-place operations with two sg lists in atmel-tdes and atmel-aes drivers
- Match cfb block size with generic implementation in atmel-aes driver
- Microchip ISC/XISC mainline compatible drivers
- Enable PAC1934 support on SAMA7G5-EK, SAMA5D2-ICP, SAM9X60-EK boards
- Fix PTP TX timestamp handling due to padding and improve PTP TX timestamp on MACB driver
- Enable PTP support on SAMA7G5
- Enable SAMA7G54 SiPs
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v5.15 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v5.15.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v5.15.68
- Enable RTT driver for SAM9x60 Curiosity
- Fix phylink suspend / resume on SAMA7G5
- Serial: enable GCLK usage for SoCs that support it to get better baud rate accuracy
- Improve thermal management calibration for SAMA7G5
- Backport of LAN93XX drivers from upstream
- Enable OP-TEE support for SAMA5D2 SoM1-EK
- DMA: convert HDMAC driver to use virt-dma
- Add support for MCP251xfd CAN driver
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v5.15 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported.
Here are the main additional enhancements:
- Addition of support for the new SAM9X60 Curiosity kit
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v5.15 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v5.15.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v5.15.32
- Addition of the new SAMA7G54 SoC as part of the SAMA7G5 family
- WILC: Update driver & firmware to 15.7 with WPA3 security support
- Add support for Sony imx274 camera sensor
- ISC driver moved to media controller paradigm for image acquisition pipeline (MIPI CSI-2)
- Support for External Interrupt Controller (EIC) available on SAMA7G5
- Add Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) support with Operating Performance Points (OPP) for 90MHz, 250MHz, 600MHz, 800MHz, 1GHz frequencies for SAMA7G5
- Refactored clocks' suspend/resume
- Support for power management modes: WFI (standby), ULP0, ULP1, BSR for SAMA7G5
- Low power mode for on board crystal oscillators in ULP0 and ULP1 to reduce overall power consumption
- GEMAC support with RGMII and MII for SAMA7G5
- Fix GEMAC Wake On LAN on ulp0, ulp1 for SAMA7G5
- Increased PIT64B clockevent timer frequency to 5MHz for better timers resolution on
- CPU Idle support with minimized CPU frequency and DDRAM in self-refresh for SAMA7G5 family
- Use ADC reworked driver from mainline
- ADC support for reading temperature channel available on SAMA7G5
- Support for accessing memory backed by OTP controller (modeled as NVMEM driver) for SAMA7G5
- Thermal management support for SAMA7G5
- Add QSPI / Octal SPI driver for SAMA7G5 (Single, Dual, Quad, Octal DTR modes), tested with mx66lm1g45g
- Add NAND support for SAMA7G5 and test it with 29F4G08ABAEA
- Add support for mx66lm1g45g NOR Flash, implement byte swap to fix endianness in 8D-8D-8D(Octal DTR)
- Enable crypto engines on SAMA7G5: AES, TDES, SHA with same features as on sama5d2 SoC
- Cleanup and runtime PM support for atmel-rng driver
- Fix deadlocks on AT91 DMA driver
- Reset controller support for USB PHY on SAMA7G5
- Improve USB PHY clock handling when used by both Host and Device for SAMA7G5
- Add SAMA7G5 audio interfaces drivers: SPDIF-TX, SPDIF-RX, I2S, SCC
- Add Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter (ASRC) audio driver for SAMA7G5
- Implement microphone PDMC driver using DMA mode for SAMA7G5
- Enable CAN driver for SAMA7G5
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v5.10 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v5.10.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v5.10.80
- WILC: Update driver & firmware to 15.6. Addition of WPA3 security support
- WILC: New power sequencing driver
- Addition of the new SAMA5D29 SoC as part of the SAMA5D2 family
- I2C: bus recovery mechanism and digital filter for SAMA5D2 ICP and SAMA5D27 SOM1 EK boards
- Crypto: Import enhancements from Linux Mainline. They fix corner cases for few cipher modes for the crypto drivers: AES(ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB, CTR, XTS) and DES(OFB) modes
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v5.10 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v5.10.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v5.10.50
- Update WILC driver & firmware to 15.5
- SOC: added SAM9x60 SiPs
- ISC: rework and separate pipeline between old and new hardware revisions
- Crypto engines:
- fix corner cases for atmel-aes XTS, ECB, CBC, CFB OFB and CTR modes
- fix corner cases for atmel-tdes ECB, CBC, CFB and OFB modes
- SPI-NOR: OTP support, global unlock support for microchip's sst26vf064b and fixes for non-uniform erase
- QSPI: disable IP at suspend time
- NAND: updated ecc_stats.corrected counter
- SPI: fix CS and initialization bug, reduce spinlock usage, switch to transfer_one() method
- SDHCI: add GPIO card detect support to improve power management
- USB device controller (gadget) : remove endpoints from device tree
- I2C: fix bus recovery mechanism for SAMA5D4
- I2S: fix usage of capture and playback at the same time
- PWM: atmel-tcb-pwm: switched to new bindings, fixed sama5d2 support, added atomic support, removed atmel-tclib
- PIT64: add suspend/resume support
- RTC: add correction support for SAMA5D2 and SAMA5D4
- MCP16502: add ramp delay support and fixes
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v5.4 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v5.4.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v5.4.81
- Update WILC driver & firmware to 15.4.1
- QSPI: big performance improvement by using enhanced memory accesses (~ 4 x read speed improvement)
- ISC / Camera sensor: align with Mainline
- KSZ8563: Fix number of ports and convert to phylink
- Sam9x60: support for different System-In-Package (SiP) identifications
- Sam9x60: align clock sub-system with Mainline and add fractional PLL support
- Fix CAN message SRAM configuration
- Sama5d2: Fix securam accesses
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v5.4 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v5.4.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v5.4.41
- Update WILC driver & firmware to 15.4.
- Integration of SAMA5D2-ICP board in the release
- Implement I2C bus recovery mechanism
- Allow using more than 4 GPIOs as CS in atmel-spi driver
- Add support for phylink in MACB driver
- Master clock register offset fixes for SAM9X60 in shutdown, reset controller and PM SoC drivers
- Improve power saving modes by disabling CPU PLL for SAM9X60
- Add SAMA5D2-ADC additional software trigger support (for example, sysfs trigger)
- Add real time timer (RTT) driver for SAM9X60
- Fix fast drop of VDDCORE on shutdown operations for SAM9X60
- Refactor reset controller driver
- Switch the AES and TDES crypto drivers to the skcipher API. Clean the drivers and add various fixes.
- Mainline SAM9x60 HWRNG support
- Add support for SHA204A (I2C) random number generator
- DMA drivers locking improvement and deadlock fixes
- Fix possible MMIO window size overrun in QSPI driver
- USB device controller (gadget) driver cleanup & fix for Vbus disconnect DMA issue.
- Add support for Micron/Aptina MT9V022 monochrome camera sensor for both ISC-based MPUs and ISI-based MPUs.
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v4.19 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v4.19.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.19.78
- Added support for SAMA5D2-ICP board
- SAMA5D2 ICP drivers:
- MCP16502 PMIC driver
- KSZ 8563 ethernet switch driver
- USB 2534 hub generic driver
- LAN7850 driver with suspend / resume fix
- Driver for the WILC3000 and WILC1000 release 15.2 in place in the Linux4SAM kernel and ready to use
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v4.19 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v4.19.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- SAM9X60 SoC drivers:
- PLL Fractional support
- PIT64 driver used for clock event
- PIO drive strength and slew rate support
- PWM support
- QSPI controller support
- NAND controller support
- ISI support
- ADC support
- Reworked USB gadget driver. Updated endpoint allocation scheme. Fixed driver when working in FIFO mode only
- I2S Multi Channel driver with support of up to 8 channels in TDM mode
- Power management: ULP0 PM and Idle
- Watchdog support
- TRNG support
- RTC support
- SAMA5D27 WLSOM1 drivers:
- Backup and self-refresh support for LPDDR2
- PTC support for QT1 Mutual/Self Capacitance and Q2 wings
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v4.19 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v4.19.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.19.56
- Redesign of the Image Sensor Controller (ISC) driver with new White balance enhanced features.
- Driver for the WILC3000 and WILC1000 release 15.2 in place in the Linux4SAM kernel and ready to use
- TWI hardware filters support that filter out possible glitches on the TWI wires for both SAMA5D4 Xplained and SAMA5D2 Xplained
- Add 9bit/Multidrop
support in USART driver
- PIOBU pin controller driver
- MCP16502 PMIC driver
- ACT8945A: PM support (integrated in mainline)
- Ethernet: add runtime PM support (integrated in mainline)
- Ethernet: add backup and self-refresh support (integrated in mainline)
- Ethernet: use of NAPI GRO helpers to improve RX performance
- QSPI: move driver under the SPI-MEM interface. The controller can be used with NAND or NOR flashes.
- Support for Omnivision ov5640 now available for both SAMA5D2 Xplained and SAMA5D27 SOM1 EK
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v4.14 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v4.14.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.14.73
- Support for PDA 5" screen as the default display
- Added video decoder driver for SAMA5D4
- Added multidrop support for serial controllers
- Added ISO 7816 driver
- Ethernet - retrieve MAC address from provided NVMEM
- Ethernet hardware RX queues , RX hardware filtering, queue statistics
- PHY-handle device tree support
- Ethernet padding and FCS enhancement
- Ethernet re-factor power management suspend/resume
- Power management support for backup and self-refresh: QSPI, FLEXCOM, TCB-PWM, programmable clocks.
- Updated SPI-NOR non uniform erase support
- Added USART SPI driver
- ADC DMA support on SAMA5D2
- ADC resistive touch screen support for SAMA5D2
- Mikroelectronika audio codec board driver
- Rework I2S clock driver on SAMA5D2
- fixes: Ethernet TX DMA descriptors processing, shutdown controller register corruption while shutting down.
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v4.9 Linux kernel tag where most of the Microchip SoC features are already supported. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v4.9.x version is merged in our branch.
Here is a little summary of the main additional enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.9.87
- Addition of the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) input driver with firmware and configuration files management
- Addition of the new SAMA5D2 PTC EK board
- Use of bounce buffer with SPI on ARM9 SoCs
- fix SMC register offset for SAMA5D2
- fix 10/100 Ethernet macb settings for SAMA5D3 by removing support for scatter-gather
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Kernel
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.9.52
- Support for low power Backup+Self-Refresh mode for SAMA5D2 and the SAMA5D2 Xplained board
- SAMA5D2: most of the driver converted to support the Backup+Self-Refresh mode
- Low power modes: use of kernel command line parameters to choose the Power Management scheme (ULP0, ULP1, Backup+Self-Refresh)
- Addition of the new SAMA5D27 SOM1 EK board containing the SAMA5D27 SiP
- SAMA5D4: addition of the G1 Video Decoder (Vdec) drivers
- Kernel configuration: Use of the High resolution timers option by default
- Kernel configuration: Use of the tick-less system configuration by default
- Kernel configuration: Use of CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL for improving network performance
- SAMA5D2: ADC add hardware trigger and buffer support
- SAMA5D2: ISC: format configuration enhancement
- Addition of another camera sensor: the ov7670
- Addition of several peripherals in device tree: CAN, PWM for instance
- fixes: SAMA5D4-compatible watchdog, SAMAD2 LCD drive strength on base signals, use of CPU I/O for SAM9 SPI controller, USB host vbus on SAMA5D2
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Kernel
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.9.30
- SAMA5D2: QSPI: enhancement with 4-bit addressing and Serial Flash Discoverable Parameters (SFDP) tables
- SAMA5D2: CAN driver support for latest CAN_FD IP enhancements
- SAMA5D2: Ultra Low Power mode ULP1 support
- SAMA5D2: PWM driver
- SAMA5D2: Audio PLL and ClassD audio amplifier drivers
- SAMA5D2: I2S driver
- pinctrl driver: add support for OUTPUT config
- PWM: switch to atomic PWM
- Hardware Crypto accelerators: SHA and AES: add support to hmac(shaX) and authenc(hmac(shaX), Y(aes)) modes
- ISI and ISC with camera sensors are now all compatible with the V4L2 API
- maXTouch driver: stabilize and integrate driver enhancements from atmel-maxtouch github repository
- fixes: cpuIDLE, serial driver with DMA
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Kernel
Enhancements are added on top of the official
v4.4 Linux kernel tag. Note as well that we re-integrate each and every
stable kernel release on top of this Long Term Support (LTS) kernel revision. This means that each
v4.4.x version is merged in our branch. Here is a little summary of the main enhancements:
- Integration of stable kernel updates up to v4.4.26
- SAMA5D2: ISC and camera sensors enhancements (ov7740) to be compatible with V4L2
- SAMA5D2: ADC driver backport from Linux Mainline
- SAMA5D2: add FIFO configuration for I2C
- WILC1000 WIFI driver backport from a recent Linux "staging" directory content
- HDMI on SAMA5D4 Xplained: verified functioning sii902x driver
- maXTouch driver: stabilize and integrate driver enhancements from atmel-maxtouch github repository
- fixes: LCD driver vertical scaling, OHCI power consumption, SDHCI non-removable devices handling
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Kernel
- SAMA5D2: chipID, LED, push button, shutdown controller, TRNG
- SAMA5D2: NAND driver enhancements (32 bits ECC)
- SAMA5D2: new I2S driver
- ISI and camera sensors enhancements
- adaptation and use of the Bosch M_CAN device driver
- audio PLL clock driver
- PMIC and charger ACT8945A driver
- crypto engines enhancement
- quad-SPI support: QSPI
- power management: support for ULP1 mode
- support for PDA 4.3", 7" screens
- HDMI on sama5d4 Xplained: add sii902x driver
- USART fractional baud rate support
- fixes: DMA residue computation, HSMCI regulator, i2c hold time
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Demo archives - linux4sam_5.3
Kernel
- add the drm bridge driver for HDMI encoder silicon image: sii902x that is present on SAMA5D4 Xplained board
- several LCD enhancements:
- extended timings rage for SAMA5D2 and SAMA5D4
- optimize AHB master DMA interface by choosing the less used one for a particular overlay
- add access to GEM for using overlay for video decoding via gstreamer
- QSPI: add support for FLASH >16MiB : 4byte address mode
- QSPI: add support for Macronix mx25l25635e that is present on sama5d2 Xplained board
- fixes for QSPI, PMIC drivers
- Regulator/SDHCI: strengthen support for SD card insertion/removal
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Demo archives - linux4sam_5.2
Kernel
- SAMA5D4 Demo updated together with the other Xplained board demos
- SAMA5D4 Video Decoder driver
- Move to the Ultra-Low-Power mode ULP1 for suspend/resume power management
- for more information on this mode, read chapter "62.5.3: Ultra Low-power (ULP) Mode" and the corresponding table "Table 62.5 Low-power Mode Configuration Summary"
- suspend/resume ULP1 mode wake-up sources are wakeup button and RTC
- gain better consumption numbers due to the stop of most of the clocks while entering this mode
- fast resume time
- WIFI WILC1000 driver integrated from the latest source code submitted to the Linux Mainline staging directory
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Demo archives - linux4sam_5.1
Kernel
- Addition of PDA inc 4.3" and 7" screens: TM430x and TM7000/7000B
- New Pulse Density Modulation Interface Controller (PDMIC) for SAMA5D2 PDM microphone interface
- New SAMA5D2 ADC driver: using the IIO sub-system, software trigger supported
- fixes for: QSPI, XDMA, RTC for suspend/resume, phy interface for suspend/resume, SHA driver
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Demo archives - linux4sam_5.0
Kernel
As a updated kernel revision this branch contains all the enhancements already found on the the
Atmel linux-3.18-at91 branch.
Here is a little summary of the enhancements added on top of the official
v4.1 Linux kernel tag:
- all Atmel material included in the following 4.2 kernel:
- addition of newer AT91 boards
- AT91SAM9x5: pwm0 pinctrl definition
- SAMA5D4: more peripherals: usarts, uarts, spi, pioD access
- SAMA5D3: phy address for gmac
- regulator additions for the SD/MMC
- rtc node for AT91SAM9RL/AT91SAM9RL-EK
- addition of the new SAMA5D2 SoC and associated SAMA5D2 Xplained board
- DMA: interleaved, memset and scatter-gathered memset offload operations
- flexcom: serial, I2C and SPI: new FIFO and DMA modes for SAMA5D2
- SDHCI driver (SD/MMC) for SAMA5D2
- ClassD audio output driver for SAMA5D2
- Image Sensor:
- ISC: support YUV sensor output ; support RGB output format
- ISI enhancement: add RGB565, GREY, SGRBG, SBGGR (Bayer) support
- new shutdown controller driver for SAMA5D2
- new I2S controller driver for audio on SAMA5D2
- CAN controller for SAMA5D2
- new watchdog driver for SAMA5D4 & SAMA5D2 SoCs
- generated and audio PLL clocks for SAMA5D2
- support for act8865 PMIC
- LCD specification to the at91sam9x5 series and associated boards
- fixes for USB, AES dma configuration
Kernel
- support for new SAMA5D2 SoC and the associated sama5d2 Xplained board
- QSPI with DMA (disabled in Device Tree by default)
- Flexcom with FIFO & DMA
- USART interface
- I2C interface
- SPI interface
- SD/MMC interface (SDHCI) + on-board eMMC
- Audio using Class D amplifier
- ISC
- support YUV sensor output
- support RGB output format
- Crypto engines
- fix residue computation for HDMA
- ISI: add RGB565, GREY, SGRBG, SBGGR (Bayer) support
- runtime PM: added the ISI driver, modifications to the HLCD DRM driver
And the enhancements from linux4sam_4.7 tag below
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Demo archives - linux4sam_4.7
Kernel
- Based on 3.18 linux kernel
- Update atmel hlcdc driver to DRM driver.
- Totally support devicetree. Remove the temperory code which not support devicetree.
- SAMA5 series boards support
- HDMI driver for SiI902x component on SAMA5D4-EK and SAMA5D4 Xplained boards
- add LCD driver entries in at91sam9x5 and at91sam9n12 DT (HLCD DRM driver)
- Power management enhancements
- Power management states on pin configuration (pinctrl OUTPUT configuration)
- Power management pin states for: SPI, i2c, MMC, serial, LCD, SSC, IIO (ADC), ETH, NAND, CAN
- Serial RX & TX DMA support
- Serial fixes and enhancements
- updated clock management for USB (OHCI and EHCI)
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