SUSE Hack Week: Mainline Sunplus Plus1 SP7021 kernel for Banana Pi F2S

The recent Banana Pi BPI-F2S board features a new Arm SoC SP7021 by Sunplus, which is not yet supported in mainline Linux.

Prior to Hackweek I had prepared UART and interrupt controller drivers and Device Tree for Sunplus SP7021's Arm Cortex-A7 cores: GitHub branch f2s-next

Multiple YAML schema files need to be added before I can submit this upstream.

Another thing to investigate will be how to boot Linux on the companion ARM9 core.

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