[GIT PULL] Second Round of Renesas ARM Based SoC Updates for v4.10

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Olof,

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 02:34:25PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
>> Please consider these second round of Renesas ARM based SoC updates for v4.10.

>> * Basic support for r8a7745 SoC
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Sergei Shtylyov (2):
>>       ARM: shmobile: r8a7745: basic SoC support
>>       ARM: shmobile: document SK-RZG1E board
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a reason you're adding a config option per SoC?
>
> I think you'd be better off not adding these config options, and just adding
> support for the SoCs through compatibles (and adding the drivers to defconfigs,
> etc).

Yes there is a reason: kernel size.
The main offenders are the pinctrl tables, which add ca. 20-50 KiB per
supported SoC.

Note that RZ/A1 (r7s72100) is used on some boards with its internal RAM
(10 MiB) only.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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