Commit 363c8aea authored Mar 15, 2024 by Nikita Travkin Committed by Hans de Goede Mar 25, 2024

platform: Add ARM64 platform directory

Some ARM64 based laptops and computers require vendor/board specific
drivers for their embedded controllers. Even though usually the most
important functionality of those devices is implemented inside ACPI,
unfortunately Linux doesn't currently have great support for ACPI on
platforms like Qualcomm Snapdragon that are used in most ARM64 laptops
today. Instead Linux relies on Device Tree for Qualcomm based devices
and it's significantly easier to reimplement the EC functionality in
a dedicated driver than to make use of ACPI code.

This commit introduces a new platform/arm64 subdirectory to give a
place to such drivers for EC-like devices.

A new MAINTAINERS entry is added for this directory. Patches to files in
this directory will be taken up by the platform-drivers-x86 team (i.e.
Hans de Goede and Ilpo Järvinen) with additional review from Bryan
O'Donoghue to represent ARM64 maintainers.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Travkin <nikita@trvn.ru>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240315-aspire1-ec-v5-2-f93381deff39@trvn.ru

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

parent 6c4d24d6

MAINTAINERS

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		@@ -3051,6 +3051,16 @@ F: drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-arasan.c
		N: zynq
		N: xilinx

		ARM64 PLATFORM DRIVERS
		M: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
		M: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
		R: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
		L: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
		S: Maintained
		Q: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/platform-driver-x86/list/
		T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git
		F: drivers/platform/arm64/

		ARM64 PORT (AARCH64 ARCHITECTURE)
		M: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
		M: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

drivers/platform/Kconfig

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		@@ -14,3 +14,5 @@ source "drivers/platform/olpc/Kconfig"
		source "drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig"

		source "drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig"

		source "drivers/platform/arm64/Kconfig"

drivers/platform/Makefile

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		@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_OLPC_EC) += olpc/
		obj-$(CONFIG_GOLDFISH) += goldfish/
		obj-$(CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS) += chrome/
		obj-$(CONFIG_SURFACE_PLATFORMS) += surface/
		obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64) += arm64/

drivers/platform/arm64/Kconfig

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		# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
		#
		# EC-like Drivers for aarch64 based devices.
		#

		menuconfig ARM64_PLATFORM_DEVICES
		bool "ARM64 Platform-Specific Device Drivers"
		depends on ARM64 \|\| COMPILE_TEST
		default y
		help
		Say Y here to get to see options for platform-specific device drivers
		for arm64 based devices, primarily EC-like device drivers.
		This option alone does not add any kernel code.

		If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.

		if ARM64_PLATFORM_DEVICES

		endif # ARM64_PLATFORM_DEVICES

drivers/platform/arm64/Makefile

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		# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
		#
		# Makefile for linux/drivers/platform/arm64
		#
		# This dir should only include drivers for EC-like devices.
		#