Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759372Ab1FQP5R (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:57:17 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:57464 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752772Ab1FQP5O (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:57:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=PXw2e5D3rjWaxEv+/yN/BIqtdIQJJRoYXtxJP7W5zIGG0H30ZAIEv3/RPK5HoAugl6 xVgJ/fRM1NTU994oM6UFQW+FlqTxilhof/w0jzceC80GK2VT00OWiXSvwu0Tmg4KsL3f Vx/vgMgJnq7b7kR3qcHXBtv5OPKEqtqfw+Vt0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1308310831-27861-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> References: <20110617103218.GA29723@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <1308310831-27861-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> From: Mike Frysinger Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:56:54 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dQekrtam9LxTX0YV1C0SwIi9kjU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Make firmware drivers generally available To: Lars-Peter Clausen Cc: Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, Mark Brown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 24 On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:40, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > Currently only x86, ia64 and blackfin architectures include > drivers/firmware/Kconfig, as a result firmware drivers are only available on > these platforms. This has not been a problem historically, because all of the > firmware drivers were architecture specific. > > But this has changed with the addition of the SigmaStudio firmware loader > (commit e359dc24 "sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio"), > which is used to parse and load firmware files for Analog Devices' SigmaDSP > processors. These DSPs are usually embedded in for example audio codecs, which > use the I2C or SPI bus for communication and are not architecture specific. > Thus make the firmware drivers generally available, so it can be used on all > architectures. > > Note that this moves the Kconfig "Firmware Drivers" entry from the top-level to > the "Device Drivers" submenu for architectures which had it already available. Acked-by: Mike Frysinger -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/