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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

  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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