From: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Subject: Re: defconfig for panda
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:01:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120420160126.GA21441@beef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120330213930.GC8240@atomide.com>
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:39:32PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> [120330 14:14]:
> >
> > On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > * Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> [120329 12:24]:
> > >> As I'm new to the OMAP community this might be a stupid question but trying to just build and run a stock v3.3 kernel on a pandaboard. In doing so it seems as if some basic drivers are not enabled in omap2plus_defconfig for the board. I'm trying to figure out if this is normal for some reason or just an oversight.
> > >>
> > >> For example, USB and USB ethernet (SMC95xx). I notice the linaro kernel tree introduces an omap4_defconfig, so just wondering should I send patches to omap2plus_defconfig or what?
> > >
> > > We can add those to omap2plus_defconfig for sure, but let's have
> > > them added as modules. Then distros can use that easily in a
> > > standard way using initramfs-tools etc.
> > >
> > > Let's not change the drivers that are currently built in if they're
> > > needed for mounting mmc or nfsroot. Those can be changed later on.
> >
> > I'll work up a patch, however I was doing this as I was trying to get NFS root working and thus would need USB + USB ethernet compiled in and not as modules for panda. Is that ok?
>
> Maybe, let's take a look how much bigger the kernel becomes.
> Also we need to check if the same EHCI configuration works
> for omap3/4.
FWIW, the same EHCI + SMSC95xx config is used for Beagle xM for
nfsroot. First thing I enable on any builds.
-Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 19:21 defconfig for panda Kumar Gala
2012-03-30 18:48 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-03-30 21:11 ` Kumar Gala
2012-03-30 21:39 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-04-20 16:01 ` Matt Porter [this message]
2012-04-20 17:13 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-04-24 9:22 ` Raja, Govindraj
2012-05-08 22:04 ` Tony Lindgren
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