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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:48:06 -0600
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Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] [PATCH 11/11] microblaze: Kconfig: Enable
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:36 AM, John Linn <John.Linn@xilinx.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Neuendorffer
>> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:52 PM
>> To: John Williams; microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
>> Cc: grant.likely@secretlab.ca; linuxppc-dev; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.or=
g; John Linn
>> Subject: RE: [microblaze-uclinux] [PATCH 11/11] microblaze: Kconfig: Ena=
ble drivers for Microblaze
>>
>>
>> My thinking is that these drivers are likely to be used as a group,
>> hence it would be nice to make it easy to get them all visible/enabled s=
omehow.
>>
>> Steve
>
>
> It seems like John's suggestion of no arch filters would satisfy that als=
o. Since FPGAs are used in so many different applications this would seem t=
o open the drivers up to everyone regardless of what processor they're usin=
g. It's certainly less complex so I like it in that way.
>
> But maybe I'm missing something here and there's a downside?

No, I don't think there is.

I think CONFIG_OF is the right thing to do.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.