From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Altera System ID driver
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 21:59:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303052159.36531.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362481947.2293.11.camel@leyfoon-vm>
On Tuesday 05 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> The sysid give the unique system ID and system generation timestamp of
> the system.
>
> CASE 1:
> SOCFPGA SoC + Sysid component in FPGA
>
> CASE 2
> Nios II soft core CPU + Sysid (All in FPGA and no SoC is involved)
>
> From example use cases above, Case 2 doesn't involve SoC component.
> To support both cases, do you think drivers/base/soc.c is still
> suitable?
Yes, I think so. I would consider the second case still a SoC, because
you have a single chip that contains the CPU and peripherals. From
the OS point of view, it does not matter that they are in an FPGA.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-05 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-04 3:11 [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Altera System ID driver Ley Foon Tan
2013-03-04 3:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-04 3:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-04 9:41 ` Ley Foon Tan
2013-03-04 12:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-05 11:12 ` Ley Foon Tan
2013-03-05 21:59 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-03-08 10:41 ` Ley Foon Tan
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