Hi Geert, On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 16:03, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Chunyan. > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:33 AM Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > 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 <chunyan.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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/ > > > +++ 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 > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds
