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The RTL838x/839x family of SoCs are Realtek switches with an embedded MIPS core. * RTL838x - 500MHz 4kce single core - 1Gbit ports and L2 features * RTL839x - 700MHz 34Kc single core - 1Gbit ports and L2 features These switches, depending on the exact part number, will have anywhere between 8 and 52 ports. The MIPS core is wired to a switch cpu port which has a tagging feature allowing us to make use of the DSA subsystem. The SoCs are somewhat basic in certain areas, getting better with more advanced features on newer series. The switch functionality is MMIO-mapped via a large MFD region. The SoCs have the following peripherals * ethernet * switch * uart - ns16550a * spi-flash interface * gpio * wdt * led The code was derived from various vendor SDKs based on Linux v2.6 kernels. This patchset allows us to boot RTL838x/RTL839x units with basic support. Most of the other drivers are already written and functional, and work to get them upstream is already in progress. Signed-off-by: Birger Koblitz <mail@birger-koblitz.de> Signed-off-by: Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org> Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.