[RFC PATCH 01/10] rtc: sa1100: include mach/irqs.h instead of asm/irq.h

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> Why put so much work into a mostly dead platform?  Well, it's one of the
> few decent platforms which I have, which actually has working DMA hardware.
> Why audio?  It's one of those which provides a significant stress test on
> DMA stuff being correct.  Why IrDA?  It can reconfigure a DMA channel (eg,
> burst size) on the fly when it switches between SIR/FIR mode.
> 
> It may be 12 years old but it's still a very useful platform to develop
> non-hardware specific features on!

Absolutely.  Having a simple (by today's standard) platform to develop 
new interfaces is certainly a good way to make sure things work in 
practice, and that provides a nice examples for others to follow.


Nicolas