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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
On 2015年05月22日 23:01, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 04:55:04PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Friday 22 May 2015 22:50:30 Hanjun Guo wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
>>>> index e5e7c55..25a0df1 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -152,6 +152,18 @@ config ARM_SP805_WATCHDOG
>>>> ARM Primecell SP805 Watchdog timer. This will reboot your system when
>>>> the timeout is reached.
>>>>
>>>> +config ARM_SBSA_WATCHDOG
>>>> + tristate "ARM SBSA Generic Watchdog"
>>>> + depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
>>>
>>> SBSA is for ARMv8-A based (64-bit) servers, no need to depends on ARM,
>>> and why we depends on COMPILE_TEST?
>>>
>>
>> I think it's a reasonable assumption that someone will sooner or later
>> put that hardware into an ARM32 machine, or run a 32-bit kernel on
>> a chip that has it.
>>
>> While SBSA requires this watchdog device, nothing prevents SoC
>> manufacturers from using the same design in something that is not
>> a server.

From this point of view, I agree that SBSA watchdog design may used
in other ARM SoCs in the future, but how about add it back when this
kind of hardware showing up?

>>
> Tricky, though. Since teh driver uses arm specific clock functions,
> I don't think this can compile on a non-arm machine.

Since it depends on ARM64/ARM, we can temporary release from that now :)

Thanks
Hanjun


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