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On Apr 8, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Ian Molton wrote: > Hi. > > This patch add support for a new 'System on Chip' or SoC bus type. > > This allows common drivers used in different SoC devices to be shared > in > a clean and healthy manner, for example, the MMC function on toshiba > t7l66xb, tc6393xb, and Compaq IPAQ ASIC3. > > This is in common use in the handhelds.org CVS tree. > > The only real issue is that drivers using this currently tend to assume > that the SoC is attached to a platfrom_bus. This can be resolved as and > when it becomes an issue for people. What is wrong with using platform_device for this? We have been doing that on PPC for SoCs for a few months now and I'm pretty sure ARM has been doing this even longer. - kumar - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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