Bug#812540: Add ARCH_HISI for Lemaker HiKey support
On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 09:00 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2016-03-12, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 20:03 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> >> On 2016-03-10, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> >> > * Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> [2016-01-25 09:57]:
> >> Most drivers aren't even available in 4.4.x, and some aren't even
> in
> >> 4.5.x yet. From a breif glance, the dts files for
> >> arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220*, don't look to contain
> support
> >> for
> >> much more than the CPU, memory and serial...
> >>
> >>
> >> > This might be a good starting point:
> >> > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg109
> 864
> >> 4.html
> >>
> >> Reading that patch, I'm guessing the following are available and
> >> possibly needed or desired, though possibly may require device-
> tree
> >> patches as well:
> >>
> >> available in 4.4.x:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_ARCH_HISI=y
> >> CONFIG_POWER_RESET_HISI=y
> >> CONFIG_HISI_THERMAL=m
> >> CONFIG_MMC_DW=m
> >> CONFIG_MMC_DW_K3=m
> >> CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PLATFORM=m
> >>
> >> available in 4.5.x:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_COMMON_RESET_HI6220=m
> >> CONFIG_PHY_HI6220_USB=m
> >>
> >> linux-next tag next-20160311:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_HI6220_MBOX=m
> >> CONFIG_REGULATOR_HI655X=m
> >>
> >>
> >> Will build a few test kernels and report back...
> >
> > Thanks, for things other than the ones listed above the ones I'd be
> > most curious about would be serial and networking (wifi only on
> this
> > platform IIRC). Both of those could possibly be supported already
> via
> > existing generic drivers, I've no idea...
>
> Not sure about WIFI, but serial seems already enabled:
>
> CONFIG_SERIAL_AMBA_PL011=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_AMBA_PL011_CONSOLE=y
That makes sense, thanks for the info. Since MMC + serial in 4.4 is a
basically useful thing (and I'm hoping the WiFi is some preexisting
driver too) this seemed like a useful set of stuff to enable. So I have
done so in git.
Ian.
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