On Friday, November 3, 2023 4:34:54 PM CET Robin Murphy wrote: > On 2023-11-02 3:20 pm, Duje Mihanović wrote: > > +config ARCH_MMP > > + bool "Marvell MMP SoC Family" > > + select ARM_GIC > > + select ARM_ARCH_TIMER > > + select ARM_SMMU > > NAK, not only is selecting user-visible symbols generally frowned upon, > and ignoring their dependencies even worse, but for a multiplatform > kernel the user may well want this to be a module. > > If having the SMMU driver built-in is somehow fundamentally required for > this platform to boot, that would represent much bigger problems.
The SoC can boot without SMMU and PDMA, but not GIC, pinctrl or the arch timer. I see that most other SoCs still select drivers and frameworks they presumably need for booting, with the exceptions of ARCH_BITMAIN, ARCH_LG1K and a couple others. Which of these two options should I go for? Regards, Duje
