From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: monstr@monstr.eu
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: cadence: Add architecture dependencies
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:40:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423094010.17d2d763@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <535768E1.8050609@monstr.eu>
Hi Mark, Michal,
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:16:49 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 04/22/2014 10:32 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 03:38:49PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> >> The Cadence ethernet chipsets are only used on specific ARM
> >> architectures. Add Kconfig dependencies so that drivers for these
> >> chipsets are only buildable on the relevant architectures.
> >
> > Are you sure they're not used on any of the FPGA platforms like
> > Microblaze?
I'm not sure of anything, embedded isn't my area.
> > Cadence are an IP company,
I can't parse this, sorry. What is an "IP company"?
> > might be worth having a FPGA
> > Kconfig that architectures commonly deployed with lots of soft IPs can
> > select and the IPs depend on rather than building a custom list for each
> > IP.
What are "soft IPs"? I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to translate your
proposal into a patch, I just don't understand what you mean exactly.
> macb driver can be used by Microblaze too.
Thanks for the information. I will send a patch adding MICROBLAZE to
the dependencies. Out of curiosity, is there any way I could have found
out by myself?
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-14 13:38 [PATCH v2] net: cadence: Add architecture dependencies Jean Delvare
2014-04-15 4:08 ` David Miller
2014-04-22 20:32 ` Mark Brown
2014-04-23 7:16 ` Michal Simek
2014-04-23 7:40 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2014-04-23 9:35 ` Michal Simek
2014-04-23 10:48 ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-23 11:14 ` Michal Simek
2014-04-23 11:34 ` Mark Brown
2014-04-23 13:16 ` Michal Simek
2014-04-23 13:27 ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-23 14:23 ` Mark Brown
2014-04-23 11:27 ` Mark Brown
2014-04-23 10:04 ` Mark Brown
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