APPLIED[K]: [SRU][K][PATCH 00/16] Align RISC-V config with other archs

Andrea Righi andrea.righi at canonical.com
Tue Jul 12 12:16:27 UTC 2022


On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 02:04:31PM +0200, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
>  * Some drivers are available on other architectures but not on RISC-V.
> 
>  * Some things might work or look differently in RISC-V.
>    Eg. RISC-V has an additional terminal font enabled.
> 
>  * The RISC-V kernel benefits less from testing done on other
>    architectures.
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
>  * Install the kernel on RISC-V and see what modules and features are
>    enabled.
> 
>  * After aligning the RISC-V kernel config there should be fewer
>    differences to other architectures.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
>  * Some options that are disabled on other architectures may be needed
>    on RISC-V.
> 
>  * Some modules or features may be broken on RISC-V.
> 
> [Other Info]
> 
>  * When RISC-V config and annotations were added to the generic kernel
>    the config was copied from the linux-riscv tree without modifications.
>    This revealed a lot of differences to the other architectures and many
>    of them were not annotated, so presumably the configs had just drifted
>    apart over time.

Applied to kinetic:linux.

Thanks,
-Andrea



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