[PATCH 2/3] arm64: Add Kconfig option for Samsung GH7 SoC family

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Feb 12 14:14:53 EST 2014


On Wednesday 12 February 2014 13:04:40 Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > On 12 Feb 2014, at 16:25, Kumar Gala <galak at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >> One reason to keep around ARCH_* is for drivers shared between arm and arm64 that depend on it.
> > 
> > We already converted some of them (those depending on ARCH_VEXPRESS) to
> > just depend on ARM64. Ideally, at some point I’d like to see them as
> > defaulting to modules but I don’t think we are there yet (we had some
> > discussions at the last KS, I’m not sure anyone started looking into
> > this).
> 
> I’m torn about this, I think for something like VEXPRESS it makes sense,
> however I think  its reasonable to still have an config symbol for a full
> SoC family or something of that nature.

I think for SBSA compliant systems, we should be able to live with a
generic ARCH_SBSA Kconfig symbol. For more irregular embedded platforms,
we may need something more specific.

	Arnd



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