On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:36 AM, John Linn <john.l...@xilinx.com> wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Stephen Neuendorffer >>> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:52 PM >>> To: John Williams; microblaze-ucli...@itee.uq.edu.au >>> Cc: grant.lik...@secretlab.ca; linuxppc-dev; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; >>> John Linn >>> Subject: RE: [microblaze-uclinux] [PATCH 11/11] microblaze: Kconfig: Enable >>> 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 >>> somehow. >>> >>> Steve >> >> >> It seems like John's suggestion of no arch filters would satisfy that also. >> Since FPGAs are used in so many different applications this would seem to >> open the drivers up to everyone regardless of what processor they're using. >> 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.
Some (most?) of the Xilinx drivers currently have this construct: #ifdef CONFIG_OF // probe using OF #else // probe using platform_device #endif so unless this is going to change some time soon, maybe even CONFIG_OF is too restrictive? John -- John Williams, PhD, B.Eng, B.IT PetaLogix - Linux Solutions for a Reconfigurable World w: www.petalogix.com p: +61-7-30090663 f: +61-7-30090663 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
