RE: [PATCH v2 2/2] RISC-V: defconfig: Enable Goldfish RTC driver

[Anup Patel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2019 11:09 PM
> To: Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>; aou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; rkir@xxxxxxxxxx; Atish Patra
> <Atish.Patra@xxxxxxx>; Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@xxxxxxx>;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] RISC-V: defconfig: Enable Goldfish RTC driver
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:38:08 PDT (-0700), Anup Patel wrote:
> > We have Goldfish RTC device available on QEMU RISC-V virt machine
> > hence enable required driver in RV32 and RV64 defconfigs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/configs/defconfig      | 3 +++
> >  arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig | 3 +++
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig
> > b/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig index 3efff552a261..57b4f67b0c0b 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig
> > @@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y  CONFIG_USB_UAS=y
> > CONFIG_MMC=y  CONFIG_MMC_SPI=y
> > +CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y
> > +CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GOLDFISH=y
> >  CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=y
> > +CONFIG_GOLDFISH=y
> >  CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
> >  CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> >  CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig
> > b/arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig
> > index 7da93e494445..50716c1395aa 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/configs/rv32_defconfig
> > @@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
> > CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM=y  CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y
> CONFIG_USB_UAS=y
> > +CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y
> > +CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GOLDFISH=y
> >  CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=y
> > +CONFIG_GOLDFISH=y
> >  CONFIG_SIFIVE_PLIC=y
> >  CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
> >  CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> 
> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> IIRC there was supposed to be a follow-up to your QEMU patch set to rebase
> it on top of a refactoring of their RTC code, but I don't see it in my inbox.  LMK
> if I missed it, as QEMU's soft freeze is in a few weeks and I'd like to make
> sure I get everything in.

I was hoping for QEMU RTC refactoring to be merged soon but it has not
happened so far. I will wait couple of more days then send v3 of QEMU
patches.

> 
> Additionally: we should refactor our Kconfig to have some sort of
> CONFIG_SOC_VIRT that selects this stuff, like we have the
> CONFIG_SOC_SIFIVE.
> This will explicitly document why devices are in the defconfig, avoid
> duplicating a bunch of stuff between defconfigs, and provide an example of
> how we support multiple SOCs in a single image.

Yes, indeed we need CONFIG_SOC_VIRT but this will be a separate patch.

> 
> I don't see why either of these should block merging the patch, though.

Thanks,
Anup