Re: x86/Kconfig: where to place a new chipset

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 10/27/2011 03:17 AM, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm currently working on a PCIe chipset (or IO-Hub), called STA2X11.
> The device hosts a number of peripherals (sata, ether, spi, uart, ...)
> and a DMA controller.  The individual PCI functions can't be enabled
> by themselves, as chip support must be activated first.  This is both
> because some internal mappings must be setup and because internal
> device functions rely on the internal DMA engine. Actually, an
> instance of swiotlb is being used.
> 
> While I'm sure core code should be in arch/x86/platform (and there is
> where I placed the initialization code), I'm wondering where should
> the device fall in the Kconfig tree. I tend to put it in the
> X86_32_NON_STANDARD stanza, even if the resulting kernel will also
> work on standard computers (the "SGI Visual Workstation" config option
> does the same).
> 
> On the other hand, the device can either be the core chipset (main use
> case) or it can be plugged on a PCIe board.
> 

The nonstandard platform location seems fine to me.

	-hpa