Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v2] drivers/misc: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver | Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:34:24 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 07 June 2011 21:20:50 Timur Tabi wrote: > Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > For the spi flash driver that goes through the hypervisor abstraction, > > I think drivers/virt/tile would be better than driver/platform/tile, > > but we should really have a new "abstract flash character driver" subsystem > > for that. > > Why should it matter that the SPI flash driver goes through the hypervisor > abstration? One of the patches in this patchset is a TTY driver that goes > through the Freescale hypervisor. I put the drivers in drivers/tty.
The driver in question is for a hypervisor that abstracts the flash memory using a read/write interface. There is no way you can represent that as a SPI host driver.
Arnd
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