The v4.9 release of the Linux Kernel has just been announced, and BayLibre has made the top 20 list of companies contributing to the Linux Kernel this release.

As described in the LWN coverage, this is largely due to the inclusion of Greybus in the staging tree, but BayLibre has also been active in several other areas:

Amlogic SoC family

• added SPI support for flash controller (spifc)
• added USB host support
• added PWM support
• added secure monitor support and NVMEM
• added watchdog support
• added AO clocks and reset
• added IR/remote support
• added I2C support
• added MHU/mailbox support
• network: added new DWMAC glue supporting GXBB

TI DaVinci SoC family

• added  LCDK board support
• Audio support
• NAND support
• Ethernet
• MMC/SD supported

ARM OxNAS SoC family:

• clocksource driver updates

Fixes, cleanups for BayLibre ACME hardware:

• gpio: pca953x: code refactoring
• gpio: fix an incorrect lockdep warning
• eeprom: at24: check if the chip is functional in probe()