[PATCH 0/3] arm64: defconfig updates

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Apr 20 02:12:00 PDT 2016


On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:18:28AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 April 2016 17:39:00 Stuart Yoder wrote:
> > This patch series was based on 4.6-rc4.
> > 
> > As far as I know, when doing a 'make defconfig' immediately followed by 
> > 'make savedefconfig', the resulting defconfig should exactly match
> > the original defconfig.  This was not the case for arm64 and patch 1 cleans
> > that up.
> > 
> > Patch 2 enables 48-bit VA to allow certain armv8 SoCs to cover all of
> > their physical memory regions. (see email thread:
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg497210.html)
> > 
> > Patch 3 enables some additional device for Freescale/NXP SoCs.
> > 
> 
> The series looks fine to me. I'd suggest merging it through the
> platform maintainer path, e.g. having the i.MX mainainers pick
> them up and forward them to arm at kernel.org for inclusion in arm-soc.
> 
> If the arm64 maintainers want to pick them up (or maybe just patches
> 1 and 2, which are not platform specific), that's fine too, and you
> can add my
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> We haven't come up with a really good way to deal with this kind of
> update for arm64, as a lot of the changes to the defconfig file are
> related to stuff that goes through arm-soc, but some other stuff
> doesn't.

I tend to see what got missed around -rc1, then send a single patch for
-rc2 that mops up the leftovers. Not ideal, but it seems to work...

But yes, please send as much as you can via the platform maintainers.

Will



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