From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: "Ian Molton" <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH add support for system on chip (SoC) devices.
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:21:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <732461f28d4203394e841e2fd500c511@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42569300.7070008@f2s.com>
On Apr 8, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Ian Molton wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This patch add support for a new 'System on Chip' or SoC bus type.
>
> This allows common drivers used in different SoC devices to be shared
> in
> a clean and healthy manner, for example, the MMC function on toshiba
> t7l66xb, tc6393xb, and Compaq IPAQ ASIC3.
>
> This is in common use in the handhelds.org CVS tree.
>
> The only real issue is that drivers using this currently tend to assume
> that the SoC is attached to a platfrom_bus. This can be resolved as and
> when it becomes an issue for people.
What is wrong with using platform_device for this? We have been doing
that on PPC for SoCs for a few months now and I'm pretty sure ARM has
been doing this even longer.
- kumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-08 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-08 14:19 Ian Molton
2005-04-08 14:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-04-08 15:21 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2005-04-08 19:03 ` Russell King
2005-04-11 17:59 ` Greg KH
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