From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:26:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] rtc: sa1100: include mach/irqs.h instead of asm/irq.h Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1326472451-9002-1-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com> <1326472451-9002-2-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com> <20120113164336.GA1068@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <4F106299.8050306@gmail.com> <20120113214540.GF1068@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120113214540.GF1068@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Why put so much work into a mostly dead platform? Well, it's one of the > few decent platforms which I have, which actually has working DMA hardware. > Why audio? It's one of those which provides a significant stress test on > DMA stuff being correct. Why IrDA? It can reconfigure a DMA channel (eg, > burst size) on the fly when it switches between SIR/FIR mode. > > It may be 12 years old but it's still a very useful platform to develop > non-hardware specific features on! Absolutely. Having a simple (by today's standard) platform to develop new interfaces is certainly a good way to make sure things work in practice, and that provides a nice examples for others to follow. Nicolas