From: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com>,
"open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>,
Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: change ARCH_SPRD Kconfig to tristate
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:32:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAfSe-spu2oNmfEYt+WQvRQy1bCC0e1MFjbUyBAFzghd5XNBfw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdVyy3v24zBxJFe5hYdnzdj80dvE2Z9GO4=AC1N8fD64pw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Geert,
On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 16:03, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Chunyan.
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:33 AM Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com>
> >
> > The default value of Kconfig for almost all sprd drivers are the same with
> > ARCH_SPRD, making these drivers built as modules as default would be easier
> > if we can set ARCH_SPRD as 'm', so this patch change ARCH_SPRD to tristate.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com>
>
> Can you actually boot a kernel on a Spreadtrum platform when all platform
> and driver support is modular?
Yes, even if all drivers are modular.
But I hope serial can be builtin, then I can have a console to see
kernel output before loading modules.
Also, this's what Google GKI [1] asked :)
Regards,
Chunyan
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plans-for-mainline-linux-kernel-support-in-android/
>
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> > @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ config ARCH_TEGRA
> > This enables support for the NVIDIA Tegra SoC family.
> >
> > config ARCH_SPRD
> > - bool "Spreadtrum SoC platform"
> > + tristate "Spreadtrum SoC platform"
> > help
> > Support for Spreadtrum ARM based SoCs
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-09 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-05 10:32 [PATCH 1/2] arm64: change ARCH_SPRD Kconfig to tristate Chunyan Zhang
2020-03-05 10:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: make SERIAL_SPRD not depend on ARCH_SPRD Chunyan Zhang
2020-03-06 12:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-09 1:17 ` Chunyan Zhang
2020-03-09 8:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-09 8:42 ` Chunyan Zhang
2020-03-09 10:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-09 11:15 ` Chunyan Zhang
2020-03-09 14:10 ` Orson Zhai
2020-03-09 8:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm64: change ARCH_SPRD Kconfig to tristate Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-09 8:32 ` Chunyan Zhang [this message]
2020-03-09 10:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-10 4:19 ` Sandeep Patil
2020-03-10 4:27 ` Sandeep Patil
2020-03-10 8:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-10 9:41 ` Orson Zhai
2020-03-10 9:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-10 10:13 ` Orson Zhai
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