Re: [PATCH 01/15] soc: qcom: geni-se: allow selection on 32-bit ARM Qualcomm SoCs

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-gpio,org.kernel.vger.linux-arm-msm,org.kernel.vger.linux-clk,org.kernel.vger.linux-devicetree,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-pm
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On 11/08/2026 03:15, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 03:48:00AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 09, 2026 at 12:57:00PM +0530, Hardeep Sharma wrote:
>>> Commit e10b198a94c6 ("soc: qcom: Restrict drivers per ARM/ARM64")
>>> tightened QCOM_GENI_SE's dependency to ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST on the
>>> assumption that no ARMv7 Qualcomm SoC uses the GENI Serial Engine
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>> Kuno, a 32-bit ARM Cortex-A7 Qualcomm SoC, uses the GENI-based QUP
>>> wrapper for its debug UART, so this assumption no longer holds.
>>>
>>> Fixes: e10b198a94c6 ("soc: qcom: Restrict drivers per ARM/ARM64")

I doubt this fixes tag, otherwise please explain the bug.

How Kuno could be supported, as you claim in e10b198a94c6, if we do not
support non-dts platforms and there is no Kuno DTS?

>>> Signed-off-by: Hardeep Sharma <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig | 1 -
>>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>>> index fd4d4ecd2df0..5b3c9d31fd7f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>>> @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ config QCOM_COMMAND_DB
>>>  
>>>  config QCOM_GENI_SE
>>>  	tristate "Qualcomm GENI Serial Engine Driver"
>>> -	depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
>>
>> depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
> 
> Or depends on ARCH_QCOM || COMPILE_TEST

None of them are needed, because this is part of qcom soc.

Best regards,
Krzysztof
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