[PATCH] ARM: shmobile: Enable r8a7794 SoC in shmobile_defconfig

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Wed Sep 10 18:05:05 PDT 2014


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:59:57AM +0900, Khiem Nguyen wrote:
> Hi Simon, 
> cc Ulrich,
> 
> Thanks for your patch.
> 
> I think it's a bit early to enable r8a7794
> in shmobile_defconfig.
> 
> The accepted part of r8a7794 initial code lacked of
> arch. timer initialization code for Cortex-A7 in r8a7794 SoC.
> [PATCH 1/3] ARM: shmobile: rcar-gen2: Add CA7 arch_timer initialization for r8a7794
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg34978.html
> 
> I guess (at least) that code should be merged (in current form or another)
> before r8a7794 can be enabled in shmobile_defconfig.
>
> On 9/10/2014 9:44 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Support for the r8a7794 was recently added.
> > Enable it in the shmobile_defconfig to increase build coverage.
> 
> IMO, the support is only enabled after the code under that config
> run correctly.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The purpose of enabling r8a7794 at this point is to increase build
coverage. As the SoC support is new it doesn't create any regressions
even though the support may not be in a working form yet.

> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>
> > ---
> > 
> > Based on renesas-devel-20140910v2-v3.17-rc4
> >  arch/arm/configs/shmobile_defconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/shmobile_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/shmobile_defconfig
> > index 522275a..d7346ad 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/configs/shmobile_defconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm/configs/shmobile_defconfig
> > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ CONFIG_ARCH_R8A7740=y
> >  CONFIG_ARCH_R8A7779=y
> >  CONFIG_ARCH_R8A7790=y
> >  CONFIG_ARCH_R8A7791=y
> > +CONFIG_ARCH_R8A7794=y
> >  CONFIG_MACH_KOELSCH=y
> >  CONFIG_MACH_LAGER=y
> >  CONFIG_MACH_MARZEN=y
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> KHIEM Nguyen
> 



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