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+                Samsung ARM Linux Overview
+                ==========================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+  The Samsung range of ARM SoCs spans many similar devices, from the initial
+  ARM9 through to the newest ARM cores. This document shows an overview of
+  the current kernel support, how to use it and where to find the code
+  that supports this.
+
+  The currently supported SoCs are:
+
+  - S3C24XX: See Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt for full list
+  - S3C64XX: S3C6400 and S3C6410
+  - S5P6440
+  - S5P6442
+  - S5PC100
+  - S5PC110 / S5PV210
+
+
+S3C24XX Systems
+---------------
+
+  There is still documentation in Documnetation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/ which
+  deals with the architecture and drivers specific to these devices.
+
+  See Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt for more information
+  on the implementation details and specific support.
+
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+  A number of configurations are supplied, as there is no current way of
+  unifying all the SoCs into one kernel.
+
+  s5p6440_defconfig - S5P6440 specific default configuration
+  s5p6442_defconfig - S5P6442 specific default configuration
+  s5pc100_defconfig - S5PC100 specific default configuration
+  s5pc110_defconfig - S5PC110 specific default configuration
+  s5pv210_defconfig - S5PV210 specific default configuration
+
+
+Layout
+------
+
+  The directory layout is currently being restructured, and consists of
+  several platform directories and then the machine specific directories
+  of the CPUs being built for.
+
+  plat-samsung provides the base for all the implementations, and is the
+  last in the line of include directories that are processed for the build
+  specific information. It contains the base clock, GPIO and device definitions
+  to get the system running.
+
+  plat-s3c24xx is for s3c24xx specific builds, see the S3C24XX docs.
+
+  plat-s5p is for s5p specific builds, and contains common support for the
+  S5P specific systems. Not all S5Ps use all the features in this directory
+  due to differences in the hardware.
+
+
+Layout changes
+--------------
+
+  The old plat-s3c and plat-s5pc1xx directories have been removed, with
+  support moved to either plat-samsung or plat-s5p as necessary. These moves
+  where to simplify the include and dependency issues involved with having
+  so many different platform directories.
+
+  It was decided to remove plat-s5pc1xx as some of the support was already
+  in plat-s5p or plat-samsung, with the S5PC110 support added with S5PV210
+  the only user was the S5PC100. The S5PC100 specific items where moved to
+  arch/arm/mach-s5pc100.
+
+
+
+
+Port Contributors
+-----------------
+
+  Ben Dooks (BJD)
+  Vincent Sanders
+  Herbert Potzl
+  Arnaud Patard (RTP)
+  Roc Wu
+  Klaus Fetscher
+  Dimitry Andric
+  Shannon Holland
+  Guillaume Gourat (NexVision)
+  Christer Weinigel (wingel) (Acer N30)
+  Lucas Correia Villa Real (S3C2400 port)
+
+
+Document Author
+---------------
+
+Copyright 2009-2010 Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>