Re: [PATCH] drm/imagination: DRM_POWERVR should depend on ARCH_K3

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 08:16:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 8:03 PM Javier Martinez Canillas
> <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > The Imagination Technologies PowerVR Series 6 GPU is currently only
> > > supported on Texas Instruments K3 AM62x SoCs.  Hence add a dependency on
> > > ARCH_K3, to prevent asking the user about this driver when configuring a
> > > kernel without Texas Instruments K3 Multicore SoC support.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 4babef0708656c54 ("drm/imagination: Add skeleton PowerVR driver")
> > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > Indeed. Although I wonder what is the supposed policy since for example
> > the DRM_PANFROST symbol only depends on ARM || ARM64 and others such as
> 
> I think ARM Mali is sufficiently ubiquitous on ARM/ARM64 systems to
> have just an ARM/ARM64 dependency...
> 
> > DRM_ETNAVIV don't even have an SoC or architecture dependency.
> 
> Vivante GPUs are found in DTS files on at least 4 architectures.
> Might be worthwhile to add some dependencies, though...
> 
> > In any case, I agree with you that restricting to only K3 makes sense.
> 
> I am looking forward to adding || SOC_AM33XX || ARCH_RENESAS || ...,
> eventually ;-)

I disagree. This is to handle a generic IP, just like panfrost, lima, or
etnaviv, and we certaintly don't want to maintain the Kconfig list of
every possible architecture and SoC family it might or might not be
found.

GPUs supposed to be handled are spread across 4 architectures (x86,
riscv, arm, arm64, mips?), and in arm/arm64 alone we have at least 5
platforms that might use it (allwinner, ti, mediatek, renesas, rockchip)

It didn't make sense for panfrost, or etnaviv. It doesn't make sense for
that driver either. Especially for something that olddefconfig can
handle just fine.

Maxime

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