Re: [PATCH] riscv: add Andes SoC family Kconfig support

From: Ben Zong-You Xie
Date: Fri Mar 07 2025 - 05:37:17 EST


On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 04:40:49PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 16:40:49 +0000
> From: Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ben Zong-You Xie <ben717@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx, palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx, aou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> alex@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: add Andes SoC family Kconfig support
>
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:05:26AM +0800, Ben Zong-You Xie wrote:
> > The first SoC in the Andes series is QiLai. It includes a high-performance
> > quad-core RISC-V AX45MP cluster and one NX27V vector processor.
>
> I'd expect a config option like this to come with the user, which in
> this case is the dts etc for a board using the QiLai SoC or drivers for
> the SoC. Without dts or drivers, there's no reason to ever enable this,
> so where are those patches?
>
> Cheers,
> Conor.
>

Hi Conor,

We are still preparing those patches for upstream, and we will add them
in the next patch series.

Thanks,
Ben

> >
> > For further information, refer to [1].
> >
> > [1] https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andeshape-platforms/qilai-chip/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Zong-You Xie <ben717@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata | 2 +-
> > arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs | 9 +++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata
> > index e318119d570d..be76883704a6 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.errata
> > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ config ERRATA_ANDES
> >
> > config ERRATA_ANDES_CMO
> > bool "Apply Andes cache management errata"
> > - depends on ERRATA_ANDES && ARCH_R9A07G043
> > + depends on ERRATA_ANDES && (ARCH_R9A07G043 || ARCH_ANDES)
> > select RISCV_DMA_NONCOHERENT
> > default y
> > help
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> > index 1916cf7ba450..b89b6e0d1bc9 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig.socs
> > @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
> > menu "SoC selection"
> >
> > +config ARCH_ANDES
> > + bool "Andes SoCs"
> > + depends on MMU && !XIP_KERNEL
> > + select ERRATA_ANDES
> > + select ERRATA_ANDES_CMO
> > + select AX45MP_L2_CACHE
> > + help
> > + This enables support for Andes SoC platform hardware.
> > +
> > config ARCH_MICROCHIP_POLARFIRE
> > def_bool ARCH_MICROCHIP
> >
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
> >
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