Re: [PATCH v11 0/5] arm64: add Ambarella CV75 SoC support

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 10/11/2026 09:23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2026, at 09:02, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 08:22:33PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> 
>>> - I can then merge patches 3 and 5 into clk-pile.
>>
>> You will have code depending on non-exisitng ARCH_AMBARELLA symbol, but
>> if that's fine for you then sure.
>>
>>>
>>> - The DTS folks will take patch 4.
>>
>> The entire platform is for SoC tree. This sounds ok for
>> me, but I am not sure if Arnd was merging pulls with
>> dependencies. If not, then worse case the arm64 bits will
>> wait a cycle. Anyway, I guess you can take clock bits.
> 
> The way I usually handle new SoC families is to have
> a separate branch for those beside the usual dt/driver/defconfig
> updates, possibly for multiple new SoC families, and
> possibly including required drivers. The idea is that
> whatever we merge here has at least a chance to boot
> into an initramfs with a console.
> 
> If it can boot without the clk driver, the easiest way
> would be to just keep the clk and arch/arm64 bits
> separate. If the clk driver is required to boot, I would
> suggest having a branch with the two clk patches that
> can get merged (not applied) into both the clk tree
> and the soc/newsoc branch to put the other patches
> on top. This would make sure we only have each commit
> once, but still have a clean history that includes the
> driver in both sides.
> 

There is a build dependency - DTS needs clock binding header - so it has
to be second, unless the dependency is decoupled.

Best regards,
Krzysztof