Re: [PATCH v1] arm64: defconfig: Enable i.MX95 configs for booting and Ethernet

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@mailbox.org>]

On 10/23/25 5:32 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/10/2025 17:27, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 10/23/25 5:22 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 23/10/2025 16:03, Alexander Stein wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2025, 14:19:15 CEST schrieb João Paulo Gonçalves:
>>>>> From: João Paulo Gonçalves <joao.goncalves@toradex.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Enable the necessary missing configs for the i.MX95 to boot and also
>>>>> have Ethernet working:
>>>>>
>>>>> * CONFIG_NXP_ENETC4 for the network controller driver
>>>>> * CONFIG_NXP_NETC_BLK_CTRL for the NETC hardware domain controller
>>>>> * CONFIG_PINCTRL_IMX_SCMI for the pinctrl driver
>>>>> * CONFIG_CLK_IMX95_BLK_CTL for the shared hardware domain controller
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: João Paulo Gonçalves <joao.goncalves@toradex.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 4 ++++
>>>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
>>>>> index e3a2d37bd10423b028f59dc40d6e8ee1c610d6b8..787d3ae3f5afeac486a905e0943e7b0e1dcee3a9 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
>>>>> @@ -354,8 +354,10 @@ CONFIG_FSL_FMAN=y
>>>>>    CONFIG_FSL_DPAA_ETH=y
>>>>>    CONFIG_FSL_DPAA2_ETH=y
>>>>>    CONFIG_FSL_ENETC=y
>>>>> +CONFIG_NXP_ENETC4=m
>>>>>    CONFIG_FSL_ENETC_VF=y
>>>>>    CONFIG_FSL_ENETC_QOS=y
>>>>> +CONFIG_NXP_NETC_BLK_CTRL=m
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure this should be module? Shouldn't NFS boot be supported by
>>>> default? I might be wring here though.
>>>
>>>
>>> NFS root is supported already with this being module. Yes, it must be a
>>> module, cannot be built in.
>> It seems I am using it as built-in on MX95 Verdin (patch is posted on
>> the ML), and yes, I do boot from NFS root without any initrd/initramfs.
>> It has to be built-in for that use case to work.
> 
> 
> Every arm64 platform is supposed to use initramfs and we already use all
> over the place.

Shouldn't the platform also be at least bootable with the defconfig ? If 
yes, then initramfs is a mandatory requirement for a NFS root boot (not 
a ... supposed to ... optional one), which does not seem to be the case 
until now.

I would argue the ethernet MAC support should be built-in to achieve 
maximum utility with the defconfig.