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Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 03:14:25 +0800
From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
Hi Timur
On 24 May 2015 at 02:40, Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> Fu Wei wrote:
>>
>> I wonder why you are so sure "that SOC won't have an SBSA watchdog in
>> it." any documentation ?
>> Sorry, I am not a chip design engineer, I can't see why 32-bit ARM
>> won't have an SBSA watchdog in it.
>
>
> Because there's no market for it. I'm not talking about what's
> theoretically possible. I'm only talking about what makes sense and what
> will actually happen. And I'm quite certain that we will never see an
> actual 32-bit ARM SOC with an SBSA watchdog device in it.
Why are you quite certain? any info you can kindly share here?
>
> Therefore, it makes no sense to complicated the code so that we can support
> an SOC that will never exist.
yes, that is a good reason!
>
> So can we PLEASE stop talking about 32-bit ARM support?
why? we are just trying to figure out:
Do we need to add ARM in "depends on" for SBSA watchdog driver?
If some one suggests this, we need to figure out.
>
>
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