Re: [PATCH] firmware: Make firmware drivers generally available

[Mike Frysinger]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:40, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Currently only x86, ia64 and blackfin architectures include
> drivers/firmware/Kconfig, as a result firmware drivers are only available on
> these platforms. This has not been a problem historically, because all of the
> firmware drivers were architecture specific.
>
> But this has changed with the addition of the SigmaStudio firmware loader
> (commit e359dc24 "sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio"),
> which is used to parse and load firmware files for Analog Devices' SigmaDSP
> processors. These DSPs are usually embedded in for example audio codecs, which
> use the I2C or SPI bus for communication and are not architecture specific.
> Thus make the firmware drivers generally available, so it can be used on all
> architectures.
>
> Note that this moves the Kconfig "Firmware Drivers" entry from the top-level to
> the "Device Drivers" submenu for architectures which had it already available.

Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
-mike
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/