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

[Timur Tabi]

Fu Wei wrote:

> > Because there's no market for it.  I'm not talking about what's
> > theoretically possible.  I'm only talking about what makes sense and what
> > will actually happen.  And I'm quite certain that we will never see an
> > actual 32-bit ARM SOC with an SBSA watchdog device in it.
>
> Why are you quite certain? any info you can kindly share here?

I used to work for a company called Calxeda that tried to sell a 32-bit 
ARM Server SOC.  Calxeda went out of business because no one would buy 
it, and that was two years ago.

> > So can we PLEASE stop talking about 32-bit ARM support?
>
> why? we are just trying to figure out:
> Do we need to add ARM in "depends on" for SBSA watchdog driver?
>
> If some one suggests this, we need to figure out.

We do not need to add "depends on ARM" in the Kconfig for the SBSA 
watchdog driver.

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