[PATCH xenial/zesty 0/2] CONFIG_SATA_HIGHBANK=y

[Seth Forshee]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:27:27PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 02.08.2017 17:35, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1703430
> > 
> > This was changed after trusty from y to m without any justification
> > given for the change (appears now only in a squashed Ubuntu changes
> > commit, perhaps was a victim of previous attempts to change built-in
> > drivers to modules). We recently got a report about this causing issues
> > booting on Calxeda Highbank systems.
> > 
> > Since there doesn't seem to be any big downsides to having the driver
> > built-in, I'm proposing we change it back in xenial and zesty. I've
> > already pushed this change to artful.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Seth
> > 
> Looking at the annotations in Xenial it looks like hinting =m at least for
> armhf. Not enforced though. But I am wondering whether this needs to be broken
> up into per-arches defines and get more hinting in annotations.

It's only available for armhf, as it depends on ARCH_HIGHBANK.

I didn't bother updating the annotations since it seems to matter little
for a stable release, though I did do so in artful. I can resend with an
annotations update if that's desired.

Thanks,
Seth