[PATCH v3 1/2] soc/aspeed: Add host side BMC device driver

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Tue Sep 12 15:15:49 PDT 2023


Hi,

diff --git a/drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig
index f579ee0b5afa..8a4f096d84cd 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig
@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ config ASPEED_SOCINFO
 	help
 	  Say yes to support decoding of ASPEED BMC information.
 
+config ASPEED_HOST_BMC_DEV
+	bool "ASPEED SoC Host BMC device driver"
+	select SOC_BUS
+	default ARCH_ASPEED
+	depends on PCI
+	help
+	  Say yes to support PCIe based VUARTs from the host side. The end to
+          end VUART communication between host and BMC requires BMC side driver
+	  to activate VUART functionality. This is a driver for the BMC device
+          on host.

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Please clean up that indentation. Consistently use one tab + 2 spaces,
as documented in coding-style.rst.

Also, can this be tristate instead of bool?  If not, why not?

Thanks.
-- 
~Randy



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