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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why is ARCH m68k hardwired into drivers/net/wan/Makefile?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:46:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912211646.32326.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10f740e80912210157y7b506677q6a40b40435b4634f@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 21 December 2009 03:57:49 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:42, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> > Anyone have an opinion on this?
> >
> > From drivers/net/wan/Makefile:
>
> You cut one important line here:
> | ifeq ($(CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE),y)
> |
> >>ifeq ($(ARCH),m68k)
> >>  AS68K = $(AS)
> >>  LD68K = $(LD)
> >>else
> >>  AS68K = as68k
> >>  LD68K = ld68k
> >>endif
>
> The corresponding Kconfig entry reads:
>
> config WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE
>         bool "rebuild wanXL firmware"
>         depends on WANXL && !PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
>         help
>           Allows you to rebuild firmware run by the QUICC processor.
>           It requires as68k, ld68k and hexdump programs.
>
>           You should never need this option, say N.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Ah, the card has an onboard m68k processor, separate from the host CPU.

Rob
-- 
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-21 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-21  5:42 Why is ARCH m68k hardwired into drivers/net/wan/Makefile? Rob Landley
2009-12-21  9:57 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-12-21 22:46   ` Rob Landley [this message]
     [not found] ` <73c1f2160912202306y8e3e394mb3b4ddcf24caacc1@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <200912210204.08583.rob@landley.net>
2009-12-21 14:48     ` Brian Gerst
2009-12-21 22:54       ` Rob Landley
2009-12-22 15:45         ` Krzysztof Halasa

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