[PATCH v5 1/3] riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of linear mapping

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Wed Jun 30 19:59:09 PDT 2021


On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:14:48 PDT (-0700), schwab at linux-m68k.org wrote:
> On Jun 16 2021, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
>> This seems a long way off from defconfig.  It's entirly possible I'm
>> missing something, but at least CONFIG_SOC_VIRT is jumping out as
>> something that's disabled in the SUSE config but enabled upstream.
>
> None of the SOC configs are really needed, they are just convenience.
> They can even be harmful, if they force a config to y if m is actually
> wanted.  Which is what happens with SOC_VIRT, which forces
> RTC_DRV_GOLDFISH to y.

Ya, in retrospect the SOC configs were really just a bad idea.  I think 
we've talked about removing them before as they break stuff, I just 
haven't gotten around to doing it.



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