Re: [RFC PATCH V4 6/6] riscv: soc: Add Allwinner SoC kconfig option

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 9/13/21 2:20 AM, Guo Ren wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:45 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 05:21:39PM +0800, guoren@kernel.org wrote:
>>> From: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
>>>
>>> Add Allwinner kconfig option which selects SoC specific and common
>>> drivers that is required for this SoC.
>>>
>>> Allwinner D1 uses custom PTE attributes to solve non-coherency SOC
>>> interconnect issues for dma synchronization, so we set the default
>>> value when SOC_SUNXI selected.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
>>> Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
>>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>>> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
>>> Cc: Drew Fustini <drew@beagleboard.org>
>>> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
>>> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
>>> Cc: Wei Wu <lazyparser@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs      | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>>   arch/riscv/configs/defconfig |  1 +
>>>   2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>> index 30676ebb16eb..8721c000ef23 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
>>> @@ -70,4 +70,19 @@ config SOC_CANAAN_K210_DTB_SOURCE
>>>
>>>   endif
>>>
>>> +config SOC_SUNXI
>>> +     bool "Allwinner SoCs"
>>> +     depends on MMU
>>> +     select DWMAC_GENERIC
>>> +     select ERRATA_THEAD
>>> +     select RISCV_DMA_NONCOHERENT
>>> +     select RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE
>>> +     select SERIAL_8250
>>> +     select SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
>>> +     select SERIAL_8250_DW
>>> +     select SIFIVE_PLIC
>>> +     select STMMAC_ETH
>>> +     help
>>> +       This enables support for Allwinner SoC platforms like the D1.
>>> +
>>
>> I'm not sure we should select the drivers there. We could very well
>> imagine a board without UART, or even more so without ethernet.
> We just want people could bring D1 up easier, 8250 is the basic component.
> 
> 
>>
>> These options should be in the defconfig.

Agreed, using a defconfig is the right way to do this.

-- 
~Randy