Re: [PATCH v11 0/5] arm64: add Ambarella CV75 SoC support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2026, at 09:02, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 08:22:33PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:

>> - I can then merge patches 3 and 5 into clk-pile.
>
> You will have code depending on non-exisitng ARCH_AMBARELLA symbol, but
> if that's fine for you then sure.
>
>> 
>> - The DTS folks will take patch 4.
>
> The entire platform is for SoC tree. This sounds ok for
> me, but I am not sure if Arnd was merging pulls with
> dependencies. If not, then worse case the arm64 bits will
> wait a cycle. Anyway, I guess you can take clock bits.

The way I usually handle new SoC families is to have
a separate branch for those beside the usual dt/driver/defconfig
updates, possibly for multiple new SoC families, and
possibly including required drivers. The idea is that
whatever we merge here has at least a chance to boot
into an initramfs with a console.

If it can boot without the clk driver, the easiest way
would be to just keep the clk and arch/arm64 bits
separate. If the clk driver is required to boot, I would
suggest having a branch with the two clk patches that
can get merged (not applied) into both the clk tree
and the soc/newsoc branch to put the other patches
on top. This would make sure we only have each commit
once, but still have a clean history that includes the
driver in both sides.

     Arnd