Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 May 2015 14:21:17 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver |
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Fu Wei wrote:
>> 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?
I used to work for a company called Calxeda that tried to sell a 32-bit ARM Server SOC. Calxeda went out of business because no one would buy it, and that was two years ago.
>> 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.
We do not need to add "depends on ARM" in the Kconfig for the SBSA watchdog driver.
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