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From: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: Add Kconfig option for Samsung GH7 SoC family
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:25:59 -0600
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On Feb 12, 2014, at 4:38 AM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 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 <kgene.kim@samsung.com> wrote:
>>> This patch adds support for Samsung GH7 SoC in arm64/Kconfig.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
>>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>> 
>> 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.

- k

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