Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: defconfig: enable Rockchip Multimedia drivers

["Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>]

Am Montag, 10. August 2026, 07:47:52 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Krzysztof Kozlowski:
> On 08/08/2026 16:06, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 8. August 2026, 02:42:26 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Sebastian Reichel:
> >> Enable multimedia related drivers used by the Radxa ROCK 5B (used as an
> >> example, the config options are relevant for most Rockchip RK3588 and
> >> RK3576 boards), so that all hardware is supported by the default config.
> >>
> >>  * Synopsys MIPI CSI2RX - RK3588 CSI2 Controller
> >>  * RKVDEC - RK3588/RK3576 video decoder for H.264 and H.265
> >>  * Sony IMX415 - Sensor used by the Radxa Cam 4K module
> >>  * Rocket - RK3588 NPU driver
> >>  * Verisilicon IOMMU - IOMMU used by RK3588 AV1 video decoder
> >>  * Innosilicon CSI D-PHY - RK3588 CSI PHY (one of them)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
> > 
> > I'm not sure what the actual rule for defconfig changes is.
> > 
> > In some past thread I remember (hopefully correctly) Krzysztof saying
> > that the arm64 defconfig is not supposed to be a distro-config, so
> > enabling each and every driver was not the goal.
> > 
> > On the other hand, he did not repeat that in his reply to your v1 ;-) .
> > 
> > We're at -rc7 tomorrow, so it'd be 7.4 material anyway, so enough time
> > to get "complaints" I guess ;-) .
> 
> I believe defconfig is still mostly for us and the patch fits this
> purpose - you need these to fully use mentioned upstream hardware.
> 
> I learnt that few distros (I think Fedora) use defconfig directly
> instead of customizing it like Ubuntu does, so anyway maybe we should
> enable everything for given hardware.

thanks a lot for the clarification, I'll roll with that in the future :-)


Heiko