Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:03:24 +0100 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option |
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Hi Arnd,
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 01:12:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 04 January 2016 12:26:48 Maxime Ripard wrote: > > 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@arm.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 usually take these through arm-soc.
Ok.
> > We should also probably extend the MAINTAINERS entry, shouldn't we? > > > > A lot of the arm64 changes get sent to arm-soc from random developers that > are not in the MAINTAINERS file at the moment, and I'd like to reduce > that, so please pick up whatever arm64 sunxi changes you see that look ok > and send a separate pull request as you do for arm32. Sending patches > separately is fine too, but I'd like to see them come from you to arm@kernel.org > so I don't need to guess whether we should pick them up or not. > > This time around, we have two arm64 branches, one for boot/dts and one > combined for Kconfig and defconfig (MAINTAINERS can also go in there). We > are still experimenting with that model though, and it may change in > the future.
Understood. Thanks a lot! Maxime
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