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From: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:29:32 -0500

> It has been..... uhhhh carry the two... longer than I want to admit
> since I worked on a sparc. Would GPIO based LEDS make sense on a sparc
> platform? Is sparc used much in the embedded world?
> 
> If yes, the of_register_platform_driver is just a nice wrapper. It
> would be trivial to either change it to work on sparc, or add the
> wrapper to the sparc includes.

We generally create the platform devices by hand for LED
devices on sparc64.

I'd CONFIG_POWERPC depend this thing for now.