Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] arm64: Add support for Spreadtrum's Sharkl64 Platform in Kconfig and defconfig | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:00:31 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 26 November 2014 10:32:35 Lyra Zhang wrote: > > For now, we have only one platform(Sharkl64) based on ARM64 been submitted, > but we're intending to add support for more our platforms based on ARM64 or > ARM32 in the future. There are many common devices on these platforms, such > as serial. Our idea would be that if we had a 'menuconfig ARCH_SPRD' in the > Kconfig, these common devices only need to depend on ARCH_SPRD in the > respective Kconfig, otherwise they may depend on a few Kconfig symbols for > every platforms which include these common devices. > > So, do you think whether we should define a menuconfig(ARCH_SPRD) in the > Kconfig for this case ?
It sounds like your other platforms are all related, so one ARCH_SPRD should be enough. If someone wants to build a kernel that is only going to run on a particular machine, they can just turn off all the other drivers they don't want.
Arnd
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