[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add kernel support for Fintek Super-IO chips

[Daniel Golle]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:02:34AM +0100, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> Nick Bowler <nbowler at draconx.ca> [2020-03-24 21:14:51]:
> 
> > On 2020-03-21, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:27:09PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > >> This series enables packaging of the Linux hwmon, watchdog and gpio
> > >> drivers that support multiple Fintek Super-IO chips.  In particular,
> > >> the Fintek F71869A is used on the Jetway NF99FL board and the stock
> > >> OpenWRT kernels appear to completely lack drivers for this chip.
> > >
> > > The driver looks ACPI/x86-specific, please add target dependency or
> > > move the package definition to target/linux/x86/modules.mk.
> > 
> > I think there shouldn't be anything _inherently_ x86 specific about
> > the drivers themselves although probably nobody uses Super-IO chips
> > like these outside of the PC-compatible world.
> 
> Those symbols have `depends on !PPC` config constraint in the kernel.

... which is the only other platform using ACPI apart from x86...
(the driver depends on ACPI)

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