linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/11] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:20:59 +0100
From:	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
To:	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option



On 01/02/16 18:39, Andre Przywara wrote:
> To prepare for the Allwinner A64 SoC support, introduce a config
> option to allow compiling Allwinner (aka. sunxi) specific drivers
> for the arm64 architecture as well.
> This patch just defines the ARCH_SUNXI symbol to allow Allwinner
> specific drivers to be selected during kernel configuration.
> Since the MMC driver is quite essential for Linux to be useful, select
> it by default.
>

This mostly depends on the board you have. The rootfs could be on the 
flash, on nfs or even on a usb stick.

I don't see why MMC support should be essential for A64 SoC.

Regards,
Matthias