New ARM SoCs Supported By Linux 4.7, Including The First Mainline LG ARM Platform

Seven ARM pull requests were submitted on Tuesday for the Linux 4.7 merge window.

Arnd Bergmann sent in his plethora of ARM SoC/platform changes for this next kernel cycle, Linux 4.7. In digging through the changes, prominent highlights include:

- LG1312 platform is new and marks the first ARM platform from LG that has been supported in the mainline kernel. The LG1K platform is Cortex-A53 based and is used in LG Electronics' digital TVs.

- The ASpeed platform was added with the SoC platform updates, which is "what most whitebox servers use as their baseboard management controller." There is the AST2400 and AST2500 SOCs supported.

- The OXNAS ARM9 platform is now supported as an "old platform" for NAS devices by Oxford Semiconductor.

- The V2M-MPS2 prototyping platform by ARM is now supported, which they use for prototyping Cortex-MP2 cores and related to Realview / Versatile Express.

- Rework of NVIDIA Tegra USB 3.0 support.

- Overhaul to the Device Tree for the 96Boards HiKey Hisilicon Hi6220 (Kirin 620) and new Hisilicon Hip06/D03 server platform addition.

- Device Tree additions for the Google Pixel C, Hardkernel ODROID C2, and Geekbuying GeekBox.

- Device Tree addition for the first-generation Amazon Kindle Fire tablet / ebook reader.

- Samsung's ARTIK5 evaluation board is now supported with the DT updates.

This isn't one of the busiest ARM SoC/platform cycles on record, but still a lot of good stuff is happening in this space. If you want to dig through all of the changes in full, the pull requests start here.