Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:12:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Tree for Apr 29 (drivers/leds/leds-turris-omnia) |
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On Mon 2019-04-29 19:51:40, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 29.04.19 18:53, Pavel Machek wrote: > >>> Theoretically. But we both now that probability of that is very low, > >>> and that likely driver would need other updates, too... right? > >> > >> What would be the benefit to add ARM dependency? So that distro > >> compilations don't ship the turris_omnia driver unnecesarily? > > > > That, and so that people are not asked "do you want to enable omnia > > LEDs?" when they update their kernel on i386. > > Is that controller only built-in into some SoCs, or also available > as a separate chip ?
AFAIU.. separate chip, but runs firmware not likely to be available outside Turris routers.
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