> From: Ohad Ben-Cohen [mailto:ohad@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 9. oktober 2012 16:39 > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Dan Carpenter > > <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If it already compiles fine on x86 then there is no advantage to >> disabling it. > > Not really; that's really a hardware question and not a software one. > > There are hardware devices that can go with any platform/architecture, > e.g., WLAN chips. OTOH, there are a lot of hardware devices that are > coupled with certain SoC, e.g. OMAP's remote processors. > > What I'm trying to understand is whether the STE modem device belongs > to the former or latter group. It sounds like a modem belongs to the > former group, but if it does belong to the latter, then the building > of its driver should be possible only on the relevant > platforms/architectures. This driver is intended for NovaThor SoC and for a configuration with LLI as the shared memory interface between the host and modem. When using LLI as the shared memory interface the modem could be used with any platform/architecture with little endian byte sex and a LLI interface. So I guess this driver belongs in the former group you mention, and should probably not be dependent on ARM only. Thanks, Sjur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
