[Arm-dev] mvpp2 ACPI support in Centos altarch7-aarch64

Sun Jan 28 09:24:55 UTC 2018
Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>

Hi,

Kind reminder - would it be possible to get more detailed information
about proper updating .config files when adding new support?

Best regards,
Marcin

2018-01-24 15:04 GMT+01:00 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>:
> Hi Jim,
>
> ACPI support for the Marvell Armada 7k/8k NIC finally landed in the
> mainline kernel. I backported all required stuff from the upstream to
> v4.11 and I'm about to create patch that adds a support in the kernel.
>
> Please check if my understanding of adding the patch is sufficient:
> 1. Place squashed patch in SOURCES/
> 2. Update SPECS/kernel-alt.spec with the added patch ("5a27f64 - adds
> thunderx support patch per cavium list request" is a good reference
> for that)
> 3. Update:
> SOURCES/kernel-alt-4.11.0-aarch64-debug.config
> SOURCES/kernel-alt-4.11.0-aarch64.config
> And here's where I have problems. I took
> kernel-alt-4.11.0-aarch64.config to my v4.11 branch and tried to first
> build kernel directly from that point - it cannot be done flawlessly,
> as one have to manually choose multiple kernel CONFIGs resolution.
>
> Further I wanted to use  make menuconfig enabled CONFIG_ARCH_MVEBU=y
> and CONFIG_MVPP2=m.
>
> It would be great, if you were able to let know, what's the easiest
> and quickest way to apply and test new patches on top of
> sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcin