[RFC PATCH 3/5] arm64: defconfig: sunxi: include options for Allwinner H5 SoC

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Thu Nov 24 03:09:21 PST 2016


Hi,

On 24/11/16 11:01, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 01:17:13AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>>> The Allwinner H5 SoC is closely related to the H3 SoC, so select the
>>> basic pinctrl driver and the DMA driver to let a defconfig kernel boot
>>> on those boards.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 6 +++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>>> index cfbdf02..8300677 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>>> @@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ config ARCH_SUNXI
>>>       select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
>>>       select PINCTRL
>>>       select PINCTRL_SUN50I_A64
>>> +     select PINCTRL_SUN8I_H3
>>> +     select PINCTRL_SUN8I_H3_R
>>> +     select DMA_SUN6I
>>
>> I'm not sure I want to get an ever growing select which will be an
>> union of all the drivers that all the arm64 Allwinner SoCs will
>> require.
>>
>> Select leaves no option to disable that option, and we have defconfig
>> to deal with that nicely.
> I have to agree. We should only select things that aren't selectable
> by the user. In our case, that's only the pinctrl drivers.

Right, I missed that.

> We should use default y (ARCH_SUNXI && ARM64) for every driver that
> has a prompt entry in Kconfig.

Sounds like a plan. I will look into this.

Thanks,
Andre.



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