Re: [PATCH 8/9] drm/rockchip: Drop ROCKCHIP_IOMMU depend for DRM_ROCKCHIP

[Chaoyi Chen <chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com>]

Hi Heiko,

On 1/9/2026 3:03 AM, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2025, 03:06:31 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Chaoyi Chen:
>> From: Chaoyi Chen <chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com>
>>
>> On the RK3506 platform, there is no iommu hardware. And even on
>> platform that have iommu hardware, it should be possible to use
>> VOP without enabling iommu. In this case, a contiguous memory
>> space like CMA should be used.
>>
>> So this patch removes the dependency on ROCKCHIP_IOMMU.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chaoyi Chen <chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/Kconfig | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/Kconfig
>> index b7b025814e72..a056d419190c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/Kconfig
>> @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
>>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>>  config DRM_ROCKCHIP
>>  	tristate "DRM Support for Rockchip"
>> -	depends on DRM && ROCKCHIP_IOMMU
>> +	depends on DRM
>> +	depends on ROCKCHIP_IOMMU || !ROCKCHIP_IOMMU
> 
> I don't really understand this yes+no line :-)
> 
> Can't you just
> - drop the dependency altogether
> or
> - do a depends on ROCKCHIP_IOMMU if ARM64
> 
>

This trick is called optional-dependencies [0]. In addition to the 
familiar depends on ROCKCHIP_IOMMU part, the newly added !ROCKCHIP_IOMMU
ensures that DRM_ROCKCHIP can still be built even when ROCKCHIP_IOMMU
is not build.

[0]: https://docs.kernel.org/kbuild/kconfig-language.html#optional-dependencies

If we just:
- drop the dependency altogether 

When IOMMU is enabled, the dependency relationship cannot be handled 
correctly. For example, the following configuration is possible: 
ROCKCHIP_IOMMU=m, DRM_ROCKCHIP=y, which leads to a build failure.

- do a depends on ROCKCHIP_IOMMU if ARM64

This changes the semantics. On arm64 we should also be able to work
without IOMMU being enabled.

-- 
Best, 
Chaoyi