Re: [PATCH] net: can: Enable xilinx driver for all ARCHs

From: Marc Kleine-Budde
Date: Mon Mar 09 2015 - 11:56:46 EST


On 03/09/2015 04:51 PM, SÃren Brinkmann wrote:
>>> Sounds reasonable. Michael, make it so.
>>
>> I have sent v2 which add arm64 to Kconfig and I am keeping just dependency on
>> ARCH_ZYNQ not all ARM platforms.
>
> You could (and some people do that with some devices) use these devices
> from x86(_64) if you plug your FPGA/Zynq platform into a PCIe slot
> (FWIW, this should work for any platform that supports PCIe). I think we
> just had somebody sending patches to enable the Zynq UART, IIRC, for x86.

Nice :)

The "depends on" can easily be changed with once there's PCIe glue code
for the driver.

Marc
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