[PATCH v7 0/6] arm64: lan969x: Add support for Microchip LAN969x SoC

[Robert Marko]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025, at 13:39, Robert Marko wrote:
> > This patch series adds basic support for Microchip LAN969x SoC.
> >
> > It introduces the SoC ARCH symbol itself and allows basic peripheral
> > drivers that are currently marked only for AT91 to be also selected for
> > LAN969x.
> >
> > DTS and further driver will be added in follow-up series.
> >
> > Robert Marko (6):
> >   arm64: lan969x: Add support for Microchip LAN969x SoC
> >   spi: atmel: make it selectable for ARCH_LAN969X
> >   i2c: at91: make it selectable for ARCH_LAN969X
> >   dma: xdmac: make it selectable for ARCH_LAN969X
> >   char: hw_random: atmel: make it selectable for ARCH_LAN969X
> >   crypto: atmel-aes: make it selectable for ARCH_LAN969X
>
> If the drivers on ARCH_LAN969X are largely shared with those on
> ARCH_AT91, should they perhaps depend on a common symbol?
>
> That could be either the existing ARCH_AT91 as we do with LAN966,
> or perhaps ARCH_MICROCHIP, which is already used for riscv/polarfire.

Hi Arnd, I thought about this, but I am not sure whether its worth it
since we need
LAN969x arch anyway for other drivers that currently depend on LAN966x
or SparX-5
but will be extended for LAN969x (I have this already queued locally
but need this to
land first).

I hope this makes sense

Regards,
Robert
>
>     Arnd



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