ARC: Hostlink Pseudo-Driver for Metaware Debugger

This allows ARC Target to do I/O to host in absence of any peripherals
whatsoever, assisted by Metaware Hostlink facility.

Further we have a FUSE based filesystem which makes us mount/access host
filesystem on target and do fops.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arc/Kconfig b/arch/arc/Kconfig
index 2611a60cb059..cd4ad61c4c14 100644
--- a/arch/arc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arc/Kconfig
@@ -389,6 +389,15 @@ config HZ
         int "Timer Frequency"
         default 100
 
+config ARC_METAWARE_HLINK
+        bool "Support for Metaware debugger assisted Host access"
+        default n
+        help
+          This options allows a Linux userland apps to directly access
+          host file system (open/creat/read/write etc) with help from
+          Metaware Debugger. This can come in handy for Linux-host communication
+          when there is no real usable peripheral such as EMAC.
+
 menuconfig ARC_DBG
         bool "ARC debugging"
         default y