From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard) Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 22:57:16 +0200 Subject: Reverting ARCH_SUNXI arm64 support(?) In-Reply-To: <5730714C.7010608@arm.com> References: <57304FF7.3080909@arm.com> <20160509090951.GC19763@arm.com> <5730714C.7010608@arm.com> Message-ID: <20160509205716.GG3733@lukather> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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 -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: