linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/vc4: Enable selection in Kconfig on any BCM platform.

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Date:   Mon, 8 May 2017 11:35:13 -0700
From:   Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        Jon Mason <jonmason@...adcom.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mircea.carausu@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vc4: Enable selection in Kconfig on any BCM platform.


On 17-05-08 11:30 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 05/08/2017 11:18 AM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> With the Cygnus port, we needed to add at least "|| ARCH_BCM_CYGNUS"
>> to let the module get built on a cygnus-only kernel.  However, I
>> anticipate having a port for Kona soon, so just present the module on
>> all of BCM.
>
> This seems reasonable, but by replacing ARCH_BCM2835 which is common to
> ARM/Linux and ARM64/Linux, you are no longer allowing an ARM64 systems
> to benefit from this driver unless COMPILE_TEST is also selected, right?
>
> This could be:
>
> depends on COMPILE_TEST
> depends on ARCH_BCM # 32-bit ARM
> depends on ARCH_BCM2835 || ARCH_BCM_IPROC # 64-bit ARM
There are no 64-bit IPROC variants that use this.

>
> or maybe down to just:
>
> depends on COMPILE_TEST
>
> and let DRM, COMMON_CLK and SND drive the bulk of the dependencies?
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
>> ---
>>
>> I would be sending this through drm-misc-next, assuming BCM
>> maintainers like it.
>>
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/Kconfig
>> index 973b4203c0b2..f136813abf56 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/Kconfig
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>  config DRM_VC4
>>  	tristate "Broadcom VC4 Graphics"
>> -	depends on ARCH_BCM2835 || COMPILE_TEST
>> +	depends on ARCH_BCM || COMPILE_TEST
>>  	depends on DRM
>>  	depends on SND && SND_SOC
>>  	depends on COMMON_CLK
>>
>
>