Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] pinctrl: qcom: ipq5018: allow it to be bulid on arm32

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 1:29 AM Karl Chan <exxxxkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are some ipq5018 based device's firmware only can able to boot
> arm32 but the pinctrl driver dont allow it to be compiled on
> arm32.Therefore this patch needed for those devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Karl Chan <exxxxkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(...)
> -       depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
> +       depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST

Can we get some more context for this?

Is this another one of those cases where the SoC is actually a
64bit core but vendors just choose to run it in 32bit mode because
that is what they want or what is the reason here? AFAIK
IPQ5018 is always Cortex-A53?

I just want to know if this is something we should encourage
or leave out-of-tree.

Yours,
Linus Walleij