From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:03:24 +0100 Subject: [RFC PATCH 5/5] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option In-Reply-To: <12966735.VQfHhlD3ne@wuerfel> References: <1450787267-26836-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> <1450787267-26836-6-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> <20160104112648.GD11722@lukather> <12966735.VQfHhlD3ne@wuerfel> Message-ID: <20160106210324.GB9631@lukather> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Arnd, On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 01:12:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 04 January 2016 12:26:48 Maxime Ripard wrote: > > Hi Andre, Arnd, > > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:27:47PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote: > > > To prepare for supporting the Allwinner A64 SoC, introduce a config > > > option to allow compiling Allwinner (aka. sunxi) specific drivers > > > for ARM64. > > > This patch just defines the ARCH_SUNXI symbol to allow Allwinner > > > specific drivers to be selected during kernel configuration. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara > > > > I'm ok taking this patch. > > > > I'm not quite sure how the process works though with arm64. Should I > > send a PR with this patch to Catalin, or does it go through the usual > > arm-soc maintainers? > > We usually take these through arm-soc. Ok. > > We should also probably extend the MAINTAINERS entry, shouldn't we? > > > > A lot of the arm64 changes get sent to arm-soc from random developers that > are not in the MAINTAINERS file at the moment, and I'd like to reduce > that, so please pick up whatever arm64 sunxi changes you see that look ok > and send a separate pull request as you do for arm32. Sending patches > separately is fine too, but I'd like to see them come from you to arm at kernel.org > so I don't need to guess whether we should pick them up or not. > > This time around, we have two arm64 branches, one for boot/dts and one > combined for Kconfig and defconfig (MAINTAINERS can also go in there). We > are still experimenting with that model though, and it may change in > the future. Understood. Thanks a lot! 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: Digital signature URL: