From: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
To: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>,
Broadcom internal kernel review list
<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: raspberrypi: Change dependency to ARCH_BCM2835 and COMPILE_TEST
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:15:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d07def49-d18d-4248-bd97-908856d2359e@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260408081150.1710717-1-wenst@chromium.org>
On 4/8/26 01:11, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> The Raspberry Pi firmware driver has no compile dependencies on the
> BCM2835 mailbox driver. It's just a indirect runtime dependency: the
> driver only works on a Raspberry Pi.
>
> Change the dependency from BCM2835_MBOX to ARCH_BCM2835. Also allow
> compile tests. This allows drivers that have build time dependencies
> on this firmware driver to be compile tested as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
No objection, however I think this should also have:
default ARCH_BRCM2835
because without the firmware driver there is effectively nothing that
works. See this patch series:
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2024-May/927679.html
> ---
> drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> index bbd2155d8483..f99d27c1f6a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ config ISCSI_IBFT
>
> config RASPBERRYPI_FIRMWARE
> tristate "Raspberry Pi Firmware Driver"
> - depends on BCM2835_MBOX
> + depends on ARCH_BCM2835 || COMPILE_TEST
> help
> This option enables support for communicating with the firmware on the
> Raspberry Pi.
--
Florian
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2026-04-08 8:11 [PATCH] firmware: raspberrypi: Change dependency to ARCH_BCM2835 and COMPILE_TEST Chen-Yu Tsai
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