New ARM SoCs & Boards Supported By The Linux 4.2 Kernel

As usual, the Linux 4.2 kernel is bringing more improvements for ARM, including support for new SoCs and boards.

Highlights for the ARM Linux 4.2 merge window include:

- SMP support for the Allwinner A23 SoC with the SunXI code and SMP support for the Broadcom BCM63138.

- Big endian support in Socpga.

- Initial support for the Freescale I.MX7D. The dual-core i.MX7 has two Cortex-A7 cores up to 1.0GHz, Cortex-M4 up to 256MHz, LPDDR2/LPDDR3 support, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and one PCI Express lane. The i.MX7 series is primarily aimed at "Internet of Things" devices.

- Initial support for the ZTE ZX296702 SoC with dual-core Cortex-A9 processor and ARM Mali 400 graphics.

- NVIDIA Tegra HDA support.

- Newly supported Broadcom platforms are the Buffalo WXR-1900DHP, SmartRG SR400ac, and ASUS RT-AC87U devices.

- The Mvbeu platform now supports the Compulab CM-A510, Armada 385-based Linksys boards, and D-Link DNS-327L.

- New OMAP platform support is for the Baltos IR5221, LogicPD Torpedo, and Toby-Churchill SL50.

- Support for the ARM Juno r1 board.

- HiSilicon hi6220 SoC support. Linux 4.2 also supports the 96Boards HiKey.

- A Tegra EMC driver was added that's responsible for scaling memory frequency under Linux.

More details on the many ARM changes for the Linux 4.2 kernel via this pull request series.