From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Reverting ARCH_SUNXI arm64 support(?)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 22:57:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160509205716.GG3733@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5730714C.7010608@arm.com>
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 12:15:24PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/05/16 10:09, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 09:53:11AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >> Hi Will, Catalin,
> >
> > Hi Andre,
> >
> >> Suzuki reported a build failure with certain (non-defconfig) .configs
> >> due to the new ARCH_SUNXI support in 4.6-rc [1].
> >> As unfortunately we couldn't agree on a solution and also the support
> >> for the A64/Pine64 is partial in 4.6 anyway, can you please revert:
> >> ce3dd55b99b151a90ac1701c6825f2ae2d49b54e ("arm64: Introduce Allwinner
> >> SoC config option")
> >
> > Given that we (Catalin and I) didn't commit that patch, it seems weird
> > that we should be reverting it. Shouldn't this be handled in arm-soc or
> > via the sunxi subtree?
> >
> > We're also a week from the merge window, so it doesn't seem like a good
> > time to be hacking at .config/kconfig-related issues.
>
> I agree, that's why I was proposing taking Suzuki's first patch:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> index efa77c1..521b1ec 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ menu "Platform selection"
>
> config ARCH_SUNXI
> bool "Allwinner sunxi 64-bit SoC Family"
> + select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
> help
> This enables support for Allwinner sunxi based SoCs like the A64.
>
>
> This is what defconfig selects anyway and also the change would be
> confined to this (new) config option.
>
> Olof, Arnd: would it be an option to take this patch still?
FWIW, I'd be in favour for such patch as a late patch for 4.6.
We can always fix things up properly in a later patch for 4.7 or 4.8.
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 8:53 Reverting ARCH_SUNXI arm64 support(?) Andre Przywara
2016-05-09 9:09 ` Will Deacon
2016-05-09 11:15 ` Andre Przywara
2016-05-09 20:57 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-05-09 21:03 ` Olof Johansson
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