Hi Geert,

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 16:03, Geert Uytterhoeven [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Chunyan.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:33 AM Chunyan Zhang [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: Chunyan Zhang <redacted>

The default value of Kconfig for almost all sprd drivers are the same with
ARCH_SPRD, making these drivers built as modules as default would be easier
if we can set ARCH_SPRD as 'm', so this patch change ARCH_SPRD to tristate.

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <redacted>

Can you actually boot a kernel on a Spreadtrum platform when all platform
and driver support is modular?

Yes, even if all drivers are modular.
But I hope serial can be builtin, then I can have a console to see
kernel output before loading modules.
Also, this's what Google GKI [1] asked :)

Regards,
Chunyan

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plans-for-mainline-linux-kernel-support-in-android/

quoted

+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ config ARCH_TEGRA
          This enables support for the NVIDIA Tegra SoC family.

 config ARCH_SPRD
-       bool "Spreadtrum SoC platform"
+       tristate "Spreadtrum SoC platform"
        help
          Support for Spreadtrum ARM based SoCs

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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