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Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 13:40:04 -0500
From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
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To: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver
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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.

Therefore, it makes no sense to complicated the code so that we can 
support an SOC that will never exist.

So can we PLEASE stop talking about 32-bit ARM support?

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