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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Maxime,

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 9:35 AM Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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>

> > > 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.

While PowerVR is a generic IP, I believe it needs a non-generic
firmware, which is currently only available for AM62x SoCs.
Once it becomes truly generic, I'm happy to drop all platform
dependencies.  Until then, there is no point in asking everyone who
configures an arm64 kernel about this driver, unless they also enabled
K3 support.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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