From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: galak@codeaurora.org (Kumar Gala) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:04:40 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: Add Kconfig option for Samsung GH7 SoC family In-Reply-To: <1540B9A3-2485-4149-81DD-7D86A532E5D4@arm.com> References: <1392100183-30930-1-git-send-email-kgene.kim@samsung.com> <1392100183-30930-3-git-send-email-kgene.kim@samsung.com> <20140212103824.GF29702@arm.com> <1540B9A3-2485-4149-81DD-7D86A532E5D4@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 12 Feb 2014, at 16:25, Kumar Gala wrote: >> On Feb 12, 2014, at 4:38 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:39:27PM +0000, Olof Johansson wrote: >>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kukjin Kim wrote: >>>>> This patch adds support for Samsung GH7 SoC in arm64/Kconfig. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim >>>>> Cc: Catalin Marinas >>>> >>>> The overhead of building one more device tree isn't very large, and I >>>> don't see any other need to have a Kconfig entry per SoC at this time. >>>> It's of course up to Catalin, but you might just want to always >>>> compile all dts files instead. >>> >>> For arm64, I thought of getting rid of ARCH_* Kconfig entries entirely, >>> only that I haven't heard any strong opinion either way (in which case >>> I'll do it, with a risk of single Image getting bigger and bigger and >>> people needing smaller Image can trim their .config). >> >> One reason to keep around ARCH_* is for drivers shared between arm and arm64 that depend on it. > > We already converted some of them (those depending on ARCH_VEXPRESS) to > just depend on ARM64. Ideally, at some point I?d like to see them as > defaulting to modules but I don?t think we are there yet (we had some > discussions at the last KS, I?m not sure anyone started looking into > this). I?m torn about this, I think for something like VEXPRESS it makes sense, however I think its reasonable to still have an config symbol for a full SoC family or something of that nature. - k -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation