Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: goldfish: Remove GOLDFISH dependency

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Jan 04 2021 - 10:22:26 EST


Hi Alexandre,

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:48 PM Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/01/2021 14:28:26+0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Goldfish platform is covered with dust.
> > > However the goldfish-rtc had been used as virtualized RTC
> > > in QEMU for RISC-V virt hw and MIPS loongson3-virt hw, thus
> > > we can drop other parts of goldfish but leave goldfish-rtc here.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > > --- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> > > @@ -1935,7 +1935,6 @@ config RTC_DRV_HID_SENSOR_TIME
> > > config RTC_DRV_GOLDFISH
> > > tristate "Goldfish Real Time Clock"
> > > depends on OF && HAS_IOMEM
> > > - depends on GOLDFISH || COMPILE_TEST
> > > help
> > > Say yes to enable RTC driver for the Goldfish based virtual platform.
> >
> > I was just looking to see if someone had already sent a patch to add
> > "depends on GOLDFISH || COMPILE_TEST", before sending one myself, when I
> > noticed your patch had removed it...
> >
> > What about
> >
> > depends on CPU_LOONGSON64 || GOLDFISH || RISCV || COMPILE_TEST
> >
> > instead?
> >
>
> But this driver also works on ARM, is it really important to restrict to
> a few architectures ?

Is it used on ARM platforms?
qemu:hw/riscv/Kconfig selects GOLDFISH_RTC, but that's it?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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