Re: [PATCH] drivers: Let several drivers depends on HAS_IOMEM for 'devm_ioremap_resource'

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Thu Jul 17 2014 - 07:02:51 EST


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:33:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2014 11:56:58 Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:20:36AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > [...]
> > > score should set HAS_IOMEM and doesn't
> > > even have public compilers
> >
> > This begs an interesting question. Should it be made a requirement to
> > have publicly available compilers for new architectures so that they can
> > at least be compile-tested? Preferably this would of course be in source
> > form so that there aren't any dependencies on the distribution.
>
> The question has come up a few times. I wouldn't mandate that the port
> has an upstream gcc (you've got to start mainlining one of them first
> after all), but having compilers available for download should probably be
> required. It's hard to ask for a particular quality of that gcc port
> though, or to expect it to stay available online.
>
> Where did you find the gcc port for score?

It's upstream, though marked obsolete and to be removed in the next
release... =)

Thierry

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