[RFC PATCH V4 6/6] riscv: soc: Add Allwinner SoC kconfig option
Ben Dooks
ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Tue Sep 14 02:26:28 PDT 2021
On 13/09/2021 09:45, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 05:21:39PM +0800, guoren at kernel.org wrote:
>> From: Liu Shaohua <liush at allwinnertech.com>
>>
>> Add Allwinner kconfig option which selects SoC specific and common
>> drivers that is required for this SoC.
>>
>> Allwinner D1 uses custom PTE attributes to solve non-coherency SOC
>> interconnect issues for dma synchronization, so we set the default
>> value when SOC_SUNXI selected.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Shaohua <liush at allwinnertech.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <wefu at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Anup Patel <anup.patel at wdc.com>
>> Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra at wdc.com>
>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
>> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
>> Cc: Drew Fustini <drew at beagleboard.org>
>> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>
>> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
>> Cc: Wei Wu <lazyparser at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs | 15 +++++++++++++++
>> arch/riscv/configs/defconfig | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> index 30676ebb16eb..8721c000ef23 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>> @@ -70,4 +70,19 @@ config SOC_CANAAN_K210_DTB_SOURCE
>>
>> endif
>>
>> +config SOC_SUNXI
>> + bool "Allwinner SoCs"
>> + depends on MMU
>> + select DWMAC_GENERIC
>> + select ERRATA_THEAD
>> + select RISCV_DMA_NONCOHERENT
>> + select RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>> + select SERIAL_8250
>> + select SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
>> + select SERIAL_8250_DW
>> + select SIFIVE_PLIC
>> + select STMMAC_ETH
>> + help
>> + This enables support for Allwinner SoC platforms like the D1.
>> +
>
> I'm not sure we should select the drivers there. We could very well
> imagine a board without UART, or even more so without ethernet.
I could make a case for selecting the serial as it is probably the
console, however the ethernet is not necessary for operation and I
would prefer to see this removed.
I wonder if we should have a new Kconfig keyword of suggest which
marks drivers as suggested for a given SoC/board/platform.
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