Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Why is ARCH m68k hardwired into drivers/net/wan/Makefile? | Date | Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:46:31 -0600 |
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On Monday 21 December 2009 03:57:49 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:42, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote: > > Anyone have an opinion on this? > > > > From drivers/net/wan/Makefile: > > You cut one important line here: > | ifeq ($(CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE),y) > | > >>ifeq ($(ARCH),m68k) > >> AS68K = $(AS) > >> LD68K = $(LD) > >>else > >> AS68K = as68k > >> LD68K = ld68k > >>endif > > The corresponding Kconfig entry reads: > > config WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE > bool "rebuild wanXL firmware" > depends on WANXL && !PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD > help > Allows you to rebuild firmware run by the QUICC processor. > It requires as68k, ld68k and hexdump programs. > > You should never need this option, say N. > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Ah, the card has an onboard m68k processor, separate from the host CPU.
Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds
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