arm64: defconfig updates
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Cover letter [PATCH 0/3] arm64: defconfig updates
Quoted 23 lines · Arnd Bergmann
Quoted 7 lines · On Tuesday 19 April 2016 17:39:00 Stuart Yoder wrote:
This patch series was based on 4.6-rc4.
As far as I know, when doing a 'make defconfig' immediately followed by 'make savedefconfig', the resulting defconfig should exactly match the original defconfig. This was not the case for arm64 and patch 1 cleans that up.
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Patch 2 enables 48-bit VA to allow certain armv8 SoCs to cover all of their physical memory regions. (see email thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg497210.html)Patch 3 enables some additional device for Freescale/NXP SoCs.
The series looks fine to me. I'd suggest merging it through the platform maintainer path, e.g. having the i.MX mainainers pick them up and forward them to arm at kernel.org for inclusion in arm-soc.
If the arm64 maintainers want to pick them up (or maybe just patches 1 and 2, which are not platform specific), that's fine too, and you can add my
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Acked-by Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>We haven't come up with a really good way to deal with this kind of update for arm64, as a lot of the changes to the defconfig file are related to stuff that goes through arm-soc, but some other stuff doesn't.
I tend to see what got missed around -rc1, then send a single patch for -rc2 that mops up the leftovers. Not ideal, but it seems to work...
But yes, please send as much as you can via the platform maintainers.
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