22/01/2021 09:39, Juraj Linkeš: > > > > > disabled drivers, similarly how the command line option works and > > > > > remove unneeded driver options ported from the old makefile > > > > > system, since they don't work in the current Meson build system. > > > > > Add support for removing drivers for cross builds so that we can > > > > > disable them in cross files. > > > > > > > > Why disabling them? > > > > If a driver is not supported it should disable itseld in its meson file. > > > > > > > > > > This is helpful when building for an SoC where we don't want to build > > > to build a driver, but the build machine actually supports the driver. > > > I believe in this case the meson build system would find the > > > dependencies and designate the driver to be build, but we don't want to > > > build > > the driver for that SoC. > > > > > > There may be other reasons as well - Honnappa or others from the Arm > > > community may shed more light on this. > > IMO, the assumption should be everything compiles on all the platforms. > > Hence, > > the disables should be applied to the platforms where the drivers do not > > compile.
If a driver does not compile, it can disable itself. No need for a configuration. > Would it be okay to leave the disabled as they're in this commit and leave > the updates to the plaform owners? Thomas, what do you think? I think this patch should not disable drivers but just add the infra to do it.
