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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