From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] firmware: include drivers/firmware/Kconfig unconditionally
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:42:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXspk27xd95YAsXa73ES8rfKxii3RUEtsBtxQTk9qLztA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dedf9bb-5377-9f2c-cbb1-2a57b40493da@molgen.mpg.de>
On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 11:24 AM Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> wrote:
> [Cc: +linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org]
>
> Am 28.09.21 um 09:50 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > Compile-testing drivers that require access to a firmware layer
> > fails when that firmware symbol is unavailable. This happened
> > twice this week:
> >
> > - My proposed to change to rework the QCOM_SCM firmware symbol
> > broke on ppc64 and others.
> >
> > - The cs_dsp firmware patch added device specific firmware loader
> > into drivers/firmware, which broke on the same set of
> > architectures.
> >
> > We should probably do the same thing for other subsystems as well,
> > but fix this one first as this is a dependency for other patches
> > getting merged.
> >
> With this change, I have the new entries below in my .config:
>
> ```
> $ diff -u .config.old .config
> --- .config.old 2021-10-07 11:38:39.544000000 +0200
> +++ .config 2021-10-09 10:02:03.156000000 +0200
> @@ -1992,6 +1992,25 @@
>
> CONFIG_CONNECTOR=y
> CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS=y
> +
> +#
> +# Firmware Drivers
> +#
> +
> +#
> +# ARM System Control and Management Interface Protocol
> +#
> +# end of ARM System Control and Management Interface Protocol
> +
> +# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP is not set
> +# CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE is not set
> +
> +#
> +# Tegra firmware driver
> +#
> +# end of Tegra firmware driver
> +# end of Firmware Drivers
> +
> # CONFIG_GNSS is not set
> CONFIG_MTD=m
> # CONFIG_MTD_TESTS is not set
> ```
>
> No idea if the entries could be hidden for platforms not supporting them.
>
> ARM System Control and Management Interface Protocol ----
> [ ] Add firmware-provided memory map to sysfs
> [ ] Google Firmware Drivers ----
> Tegra firmware driver ----
GOOGLE_FIRMWARE should probably depend on something.
I highly doubt Google is running servers on e.g. h8300 and nds32.
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-11 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 7:50 [PATCH 1/2] firmware: include drivers/firmware/Kconfig unconditionally Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-28 7:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] [v2] qcom_scm: hide Kconfig symbol Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-28 13:29 ` Alex Elder
2021-09-29 14:50 ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-09-28 8:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] firmware: include drivers/firmware/Kconfig unconditionally Charles Keepax
2021-09-28 8:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-28 9:24 ` Charles Keepax
2021-09-28 11:25 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-29 14:15 ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-09-28 11:58 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-28 12:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-29 15:00 ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-09-29 10:17 ` Will Deacon
2021-10-06 8:29 ` Charles Keepax
2021-10-09 9:24 ` Paul Menzel
2021-10-11 8:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2021-10-11 9:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
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