Re: [PATCH v8 01/15] octeontx2-af: Add Marvell OcteonTX2 RVU AF driver

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 3:50 PM Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:52 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:59 PM <sunil.kovvuri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/Kconfig
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> > > +#
> > > +# Marvell OcteonTX2 drivers configuration
> > > +#
> > > +
> > > +config OCTEONTX2_AF
> > > +       tristate "Marvell OcteonTX2 RVU Admin Function driver"
> > > +       depends on ARM64 && PCI
> >
> > You should try to allow building it on x86 and other architectures, even though
> > the driver won't be used there this helps get reports from static
> > build infrastructure.
> > You could use e.g.
> >
> >       depends on (64BIT && COMPILE_TEST) || ARM64
> >       depends on PCI
> >
> >            Arnd
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> But going forward we will have few arm64 assembly instructions used in
> the driver.

What is those inline assembly for? Is there a chance they can
be abstracted through some other interface?

     Arnd



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Samsung SoC]     [Linux Rockchip SoC]     [Linux Actions SoC]     [Linux for Synopsys ARC Processors]     [Linux NFS]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]


  Powered by Linux