netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: can: Enable xilinx driver for all ARCHs

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Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:56:24 +0100
From:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
CC:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	monstr@...str.eu, Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
	linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: can: Enable xilinx driver for all ARCHs

On 03/09/2015 04:51 PM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
>>> Sounds reasonable. Michael, make it so.
>>
>> I have sent v2 which add arm64 to Kconfig and I am keeping just dependency on
>> ARCH_ZYNQ not all ARM platforms.
> 
> You could (and some people do that with some devices) use these devices
> from x86(_64) if you plug your FPGA/Zynq platform into a PCIe slot
> (FWIW, this should work for any platform that supports PCIe). I think we
> just had somebody sending patches to enable the Zynq UART, IIRC, for x86.

Nice :)

The "depends on" can easily be changed with once there's PCIe glue code
for the driver.

Marc
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