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

[Kukjin Kim]

On 02/15/14 02:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 13 February 2014, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Kukjin Kim<kgene.kim at samsung.com>  wrote:
>>> On 02/13/14 04:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 12 February 2014 13:04:40 Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> Basically, I agreed with Arnd's suggestion to use ARCH_SBSA. Or we need to
>>> define level in Kconfig like ARCH_SBSA_L1 for level1. BTW, how about
>>> compliant with SBSA Level1 and having some specific features?
>
Well, how about ARMv8 mobile SoC? I think, it is not compatible with 
SBSA. For example, you know MCT can be used for ARMv8 cores instead of 
ARCH Timer. So I'm not sure ARCH_SBSA is really good choice...

> My feeling is that we don't need to use the levels for Kconfig, although
> we might want to use them DT compatible strings, even if it ends up looking
> a little funny when you do
>
> 	compatible = "arm,sbsa-l3", "arm,sbsa-l2", "arm,sbsa-l1";
>
>> What kind of features are you expecting though? More IP
>> blocks/devices? Those are just kernel config options to enable,
>> ideally as modules.
>
> Right, I think we can just put them into defconfig. No need to
> "select" them from Kconfig since the extra options wouldn't be
> required for booting or using the system.
>
As I commented above, how about MCT? Samsung has a plan to use MCT on 
ARMv8, it is not for used for GH7 though...

- Kukjin