linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option

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Message-ID: <20160104112648.GD11722@lukather>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:26:48 +0100
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	arnd@...db.de, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
Cc:	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, marc.zyngier@....com,
	catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
	linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option

Hi Andre, Arnd,

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:27:47PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> To prepare for supporting the Allwinner A64 SoC, introduce a config
> option to allow compiling Allwinner (aka. sunxi) specific drivers
> for ARM64.
> This patch just defines the ARCH_SUNXI symbol to allow Allwinner
> specific drivers to be selected during kernel configuration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>

I'm ok taking this patch.

I'm not quite sure how the process works though with arm64. Should I
send a PR with this patch to Catalin, or does it go through the usual
arm-soc maintainers?

We should also probably extend the MAINTAINERS entry, shouldn't we?

Thanks,
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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