linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] drm/imagination: DRM_POWERVR should depend on ARCH

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:17:24 +0100
From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc: Frank Binns <frank.binns@...tec.com>, 
	Matt Coster <matt.coster@...tec.com>, Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, 
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Sarah Walker <sarah.walker@...tec.com>, 
	Donald Robson <donald.robson@...tec.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/imagination: DRM_POWERVR should depend on ARCH_K3

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 01:50:09PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Using the Imagination Technologies PowerVR Series 6 GPU requires a
> proprietary firmware image, which is currently only available for Texas
> Instruments K3 AM62x SoCs.  Hence add a dependency on ARCH_K3, to
> prevent asking the user about this driver when configuring a kernel
> without Texas Instruments K3 Multicore SoC support.

This wasn't making sense the first time you sent it, and now that commit
log is just plain wrong. We have firmwares for the G6110, GX6250,
GX6650, BXE-4-32, and BXS-4-64 models, which can be found on (at least)
Renesas, Mediatek, Rockchip, TI and StarFive, so across three
architectures and 5 platforms. In two months.

We won't keep up, and there's no point in trying to. Especially so when
the only benefit is for make defconfig users to hit 'enter' one time
less.

Maxime

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