Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64: Kconfig: Enable PINCTRL on i.MX platforms

[Esben Haabendal <esben@geanix.com>]

"Alexander Stein" <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com> writes:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2025, 16:30:33 CEST schrieb Stefan Wahren:
>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> [add Shawn and Esben]
>>
>> Am 07.05.25 um 14:44 schrieb Alexander Stein:
>> > Select PINCTRL for NXP i.MX SoCs.
>> could you please explain the motivation behind your change?
>>
>> Is it related to this commit 17d21001891402 ("ARM: imx: Allow user to
>> disable pinctrl")?
>
> Ah, thanks for the pointer. It might be the case.

The goal of the patch mentioned above was to be able to build a kernel
for LS1021A without pinctrl framework enabled, as LS1021A does not have
a pinctrl driver.

With your patch, that would not be possible anymore.

> I noticed that, when using arch/arm64/defconfig and disabling all
> platforms despite ARCH_MXC before running make olddefconfig,
> CONFIG_PINCTRL gets disabled as well. No platform is enabling it. I
> noticed this when building in yocto and non-IMX platforms are disabled
> for build time reasons.

But is that something that needs to be fixed?

It sounds like quite a special use-case, and why not simply enable
CONFIG_PINCTRL in that case then?

/Esben

>> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
>> > ---
>> >   arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 +
>> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> > index a541bb029aa4e..49c3bc25e5f68 100644
>> > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
>> > @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ config ARCH_MXC
>> >   	select ARM64_ERRATUM_845719 if COMPAT
>> >   	select IMX_GPCV2
>> >   	select IMX_GPCV2_PM_DOMAINS
>> > +	select PINCTRL
>> >   	select PM
>> >   	select PM_GENERIC_DOMAINS
>> >   	select SOC_BUS