Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 May 2015 03:14:25 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver | From | Fu Wei <> |
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Hi Timur
On 24 May 2015 at 02:40, Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> wrote: > Fu Wei wrote: >> >> I wonder why you are so sure "that SOC won't have an SBSA watchdog in >> it." any documentation ? >> Sorry, I am not a chip design engineer, I can't see why 32-bit ARM >> won't have an SBSA watchdog in it. > > > Because there's no market for it. I'm not talking about what's > theoretically possible. I'm only talking about what makes sense and what > will actually happen. And I'm quite certain that we will never see an > actual 32-bit ARM SOC with an SBSA watchdog device in it.
Why are you quite certain? any info you can kindly share here?
> > Therefore, it makes no sense to complicated the code so that we can support > an SOC that will never exist.
yes, that is a good reason!
> > So can we PLEASE stop talking about 32-bit ARM support?
why? we are just trying to figure out: Do we need to add ARM in "depends on" for SBSA watchdog driver?
If some one suggests this, we need to figure out.
> > > -- > Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. > The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the > Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation.
-- Best regards,
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