[PATCH 5/5] arm64: defconfig: Add VeriSilicon GPIO driver
Nikolaos Pasaloukos
nikolaos.pasaloukos at blaize.com
Wed Feb 12 08:32:03 PST 2025
On 12/02/2025 16:28, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM Nikolaos Pasaloukos
> <nikolaos.pasaloukos at blaize.com> wrote:
>> On 12/02/2025 15:25, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/02/2025 14:46, Nikolaos Pasaloukos wrote:
>>>> Add support for VeriSilicon GPIO controller.
>>> You enable not add support, but still the main question is: Why? Which
>>> devices needs it? Why this cannot be a module?
>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>
>> Thank you for your fast review and apologies for the typo. I forgot to
>> mention on the commit message but I have mentioned in the cover letter
>> that the driver is needed for the Blaize BLZP1600 CB2 board which is
>> already supported on v6.14. I will fix the commit message on V2.
>>
>> This driver enables support (controls) for multiple peripherals on
>> the board, like Ethernet for NFS boot, SD and eMMC to load modules from
>> these media. Without this driver build in the kernel, it will be hard to
>> mount a filesystem and load modules.
>>
> That's alright but typically you'd want to have something like:
>
> default y if ARCH_BLAIZE
>
> in the driver's Kconfig entry.
>
> Bart
Hi Bart,
Thank you for your suggestion. I will fix it on V2.
Kind regards,
Nikolaos
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