[PATCH 01/14] serial: atmel-usart: allow selecting from ARCH_MICROCHIPSW

Eugen Hristev ehristev at kernel.org
Mon Apr 27 22:42:35 CEST 2026


On 4/27/26 12:56, Robert Marko wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 3:35 PM Eugen Hristev <ehristev at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/26/26 13:26, Robert Marko wrote:
>>> USART driver is reused by a lot of Microchip platforms, in this case we
>>> need it for LAN969x so allow selecting it when ARCH_MICROCHIPSW is used.
>>
>> Hello Robert,
>>
>> I apologize for not replying to this sooner, but my old email address
>> was bouncing.
>>
>> I did not find any information(or cover letter), about this series,
>> because it looks like you are sending this on top of something else,
>> which is not merged yet.
>> I am not familiar with ARCH_MICROCHIPSW which is not in Uboot.
>> Can you please clarify ?
> 
> Hi Eugen,
> ARCH_MICROCHIPSW is not yet in U-Boot, but its being added via the
> same series patch series.

This is the first patch in the series, adding a dependency to a knob not
yet added.
I would expect a first patch that would introduce this ARCH.

Please add changes in a logical manner to make some sense

Thanks

Eugen

> 
> Its the new arch that will hold LAN969x for start, but other Microchip
> switch SoC-s in future as well.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert
>>
>> Sorry again,
>> Eugen
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko at sartura.hr>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/serial/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
>>> index b84cb9ec781..3848c3ca20e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
>>> @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ config ARM_DCC
>>>
>>>  config ATMEL_USART
>>>       bool "Atmel USART support"
>>> -     depends on ARCH_AT91
>>> +     depends on ARCH_AT91 || ARCH_MICROCHIPSW
>>>       help
>>>         Select this to enable USART support for Atmel SoCs. It can be
>>>         configured in the device tree, and input clock frequency can
>>
> 
> 



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