Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: provide a top-level switch for Microchip platforms
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Mar 11 2026 - 04:58:58 EST
On 11/03/2026 09:32, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here's the previous discussion when this was added not too long ago:
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250811122053.4bfyoefln7wpz2a4@DEN-DL-M70577/
>>>>
>>>> Daniel is probably the one that "needs" to answer this, I think the
>>>> lan969x is added recently enough for this to not be particularly
>>>> disruptive.
>>>
>>> I don't get arguments there. The policy is one ARCH per vendor, so why
>>> exactly upstream would like to "having more granular control with
>>> separate"? That's downstream or vendor wishlist, not upstream.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Krzysztof
>>
>> The out-of-tree defconfig impact is minimal for us. As Conor mentioned, lan969x
>> was added fairly recently, so the number of affected users should be small.
>>
>> /Daniel
>
> So can this be picked up directly into ARM-SoC please?
This should go rather via Microchip ARM64 tree.
Best regards,
Krzysztof