From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933143AbcBBPVE (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:21:04 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com ([74.125.82.50]:35240 "EHLO mail-wm0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932632AbcBBPVC (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:21:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] arm64: Introduce Allwinner SoC config option To: Andre Przywara , Maxime Ripard , Chen-Yu Tsai , linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com References: <1454348370-3816-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> <1454348370-3816-5-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Matthias Brugger Message-ID: <56B0C95B.4040500@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:20:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1454348370-3816-5-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/02/16 18:39, Andre Przywara wrote: > To prepare for the Allwinner A64 SoC support, introduce a config > option to allow compiling Allwinner (aka. sunxi) specific drivers > for the arm64 architecture as well. > This patch just defines the ARCH_SUNXI symbol to allow Allwinner > specific drivers to be selected during kernel configuration. > Since the MMC driver is quite essential for Linux to be useful, select > it by default. > This mostly depends on the board you have. The rootfs could be on the flash, on nfs or even on a usb stick. I don't see why MMC support should be essential for A64 SoC. Regards, Matthias