Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:31:04 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL 0/3] ARM: SoC: Second round of changes for v3.12 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:05 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > In cost-sensitive products (and what *isn't* cost-sensitive these days), > you really don't want to have to put an extra EEPROM on the board > somewhere
Don't be silly. Nobody wants an extra chip. Especially not one that is programmable separately from the hardware. That way lies madness and the usual firmware crazies.
It's not even what I asked for. I talked about discoverable buses. How hard is that to understand? No extra chips, no eeprom, just a bus with a notion of configuration cycles. It doesn't even have to be as complicated as PCI, it could easily be a read-only model.
But no, every SoC designer out there seems to want to make their hardware crap. Don't be surprised when I then call them out on the fact. And don't bring up totally irrelevant issues that have nothing to do with anything.
Is there a cost? Yes, it's a cost of good design and effort to try to get it right. Usually that cost pays itself back over the years.
Linus
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