[PATCH v2 01/16] RISC-V: Add StarFive SoC Kconfig option

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 01:50:52 PDT 2021


On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Emil Renner Berthing <kernel at esmil.dk> wrote:
>
> Add StarFive Kconfig option to select SoC specific and common drivers
> required for these SoCs.

...

> +config SOC_STARFIVE
> +       bool "StarFive SoCs"
> +       select PINCTRL
> +       select RESET_CONTROLLER

> +       select SIFIVE_PLIC

If this is well understood and platform related the above two are too
generic. Why have you selected them?

> +       help
> +         This enables support for StarFive SoC platform hardware.

Not too much to read here. What is the point of this help?
I would elaborate what kind of platform it may support, what kind of
drivers it selects due to necessity of the accomplishing the boot
process, etc.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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