Message-ID: <1362739279.2201.3.camel@leyfoon-vm>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Altera System ID driver
From: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 18:41:19 +0800
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On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 21:59 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> > The sysid give the unique system ID and system generation timestamp of
> > the system.
> > 
> > CASE 1:
> > SOCFPGA SoC + Sysid component in FPGA
> > 
> > CASE 2
> > Nios II soft core CPU + Sysid  (All in FPGA and no SoC is involved)
> > 
> > From example use cases above, Case 2 doesn't involve SoC component. 
> > To support both cases, do you think drivers/base/soc.c is still
> > suitable?
> 
> Yes, I think so. I would consider the second case still a SoC, because
> you have a single chip that contains the CPU and peripherals. From
> the OS point of view, it does not matter that they are in an FPGA.
> 
> 	Arnd

Thanks for your input. I will go with your suggestion.

LFTan


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