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-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html