[PATCH] dmaengine: ARM_DMA350 should depend on ARM/ARM64

Vinod Koul vkoul at kernel.org
Wed Apr 23 04:48:19 PDT 2025


On 23-04-25, 13:11, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 12:59, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com> wrote:
> > On 2025-04-22 7:11 pm, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > The Arm DMA-350 controller is only present on Arm-based SoCs.
> >
> > Do you know that for sure? I certainly don't. This is a licensable,
> > self-contained DMA controller IP with no relationship whatsoever to any
> > particular CPU ISA - our other system IP products have turned up in the
> > wild paired with non-Arm CPUs, so I don't see any reason that DMA-350
> > wouldn't either.
> 
> The dependency can always be relaxed later, when the need arises.
> Note that currently there are no users at all...

True, but do we have any warnings generated as a result, if there are no
dependency should we still limit a driver to an arch?

-- 
~Vinod



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