Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 22 May 2015 22:50:30 Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> > index e5e7c55..25a0df1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
> > @@ -152,6 +152,18 @@ config ARM_SP805_WATCHDOG
> >         ARM Primecell SP805 Watchdog timer. This will reboot your system when
> >         the timeout is reached.
> >
> > +config ARM_SBSA_WATCHDOG
> > +     tristate "ARM SBSA Generic Watchdog"
> > +     depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
> 
> SBSA is for ARMv8-A based (64-bit) servers, no need to depends on ARM,
> and why we depends on COMPILE_TEST?
> 

I think it's a reasonable assumption that someone will sooner or later
put that hardware into an ARM32 machine, or run a 32-bit kernel on
a chip that has it.

While SBSA requires this watchdog device, nothing prevents SoC
manufacturers from using the same design in something that is not
a server.

	Arnd
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