[PATCH V3 1/4] arm64: Add Kconfig option for APM X-Gene SOC family

[Loc Ho]

Hi,

Yes... We will do the same if there is no concern with the growing
number of drivers.

-Loc

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Vinayak Kale wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Catalin Marinas
>> <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Vinayak,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:06:57AM +0100, Vinayak Kale wrote:
>> >> This patch adds arm64/Kconfig option for APM X-Gene SOC family.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Kumar Sankaran <ksankaran at apm.com>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Loc Ho <lho at apm.com>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fkan at apm.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/arm64/Kconfig |    7 +++++++
>> >>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> >> index 43b0e9f..16d0198 100644
>> >> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> >> @@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ config ARCH_VEXPRESS
>> >>         This enables support for the ARMv8 software model (Versatile
>> >>         Express).
>> >>
>> >> +config ARCH_XGENE
>> >> +     bool "AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family"
>> >> +     help
>> >> +       This enables support for AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family
>> >> +
>> >>  endmenu
>> >>
>> >>  menu "Bus support"
>> >> @@ -153,6 +158,8 @@ config NR_CPUS
>> >>       int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-32)"
>> >>       range 2 32
>> >>       depends on SMP
>> >> +     # These have to remain sorted largest to smallest
>> >> +     default "8" if ARCH_XGENE
>> >>       default "4"
>> >
>> > For ARCH_VEXPRESS I was planning to get rid of the Kconfig entry and
>> > just select the drivers in the defconfig file (once some other patches
>> > get merged). Do you have any dependencies on ARCH_XGENE apart from
>> > what's here?
>>
>> Apart from here, we do have dependency on ARCH_XGENE:
>> 1) To select XGENE SoC specific dtb compilation
>
> We can build all of them.
>
>> 2) Use this to forcefully select certain platform drivers such as Clock.
>
> The vexpress-related clocks etc. will simply depend on ARM64 (patches
> going upstream) and we enable them in defconfig. Can you do the same for
> X-Gene?
>
> --
> Catalin