From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lixom.net (mail.lixom.net [66.141.50.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B69A7B6F15 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:24:43 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:24:40 -0500 From: Olof Johansson To: Tabi Timur-B04825 Subject: Re: [linuxppc-release] [PATCH] powerpc: introduce basic support for the Freescale P1022DS reference board Message-ID: <20100630022440.GA4942@lixom.net> References: <1277847274-24648-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <22ED4111-892C-4715-BF70-C1E62F838DDA@kernel.crashing.org> <5610599F537DD74A8D1F5CC946A7507303478FF8@az33exm25.fsl.freescale.net> <20100630011000.GA2684@lixom.net> <5610599F537DD74A8D1F5CC946A7507303478FFA@az33exm25.fsl.freescale.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <5610599F537DD74A8D1F5CC946A7507303478FFA@az33exm25.fsl.freescale.net> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:16:08PM -0700, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote: > Olof Johansson wrote: > > Sure, the family-defconfigs are supposed to be supersets that can boot > > everywhere. If you're concerned about static kernel size you can always > > enable it as modules instead. > > It just seems wrong to add full support for audio and video in the kernel, > when it can be used only on one, relatively obscure chip. Video support > would need to be in-kernel only in order to get the console working, and I > suspect that core ALSA support would need to be in-kernel as well. See the text you quoted from me above, it applies at a reply to this as well. -Olof