Re: [PATCH] RFC: fmc: Try to convert to GPIO descriptors

["Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10.06.19 08:13, Alessandro Rubini wrote:

Hi,

> I found the fmc-bus a good idea at the time, and we also talked with> Lars-Peter Clausen of Analog Devices, who was using fmc hardware and>
told he would use our framework. We pushed it shortly later, but I>
Never heard back.
Do you (or @Federico) recall the original design goals ?

Leaving aside the purely electrical / mechanical aspects, why not
just using either pcix or vme directly ?

> I don't know if there are other users, besides the various projects> that split off cern open-hardware efforts (e.g., the Zen board by
Seven> Solutions). Maybe they could just maintain the thing off-tree.
hmm, OOT drivers are usually ugly to maintain - I'd rather prefer
maintaining downstream branches (which are rebased to mainline releases
from time to time).


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