Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] ARCH: shmobile: defconfig consolidation

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 12:29:46PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a first pass at consolidating the defconfigs of shmobile.
> 
> It covers the mackerel, amradillo800eva and kzm9d boards which meet
> the following criteria:
> 
> * Have the same base memory address (0x40000000).
> * Work with RUNTIME_PM, it is desirable to have that a common defconfig
> * Are booted via DT, enabling the command line to be supplied in the dts.
>   This is important to allow serial console and early printk settings,
>   which vary wildly between boards, to be supplied.
> * Boards I have to test.
>   This didn't eliminate any candidates that met the above criteria.
> 
> I believe it should also be possible to add support for the APE6EVM
> board to the consolidated defconfig once problems with RUNTIME_PM
> have been isolated and resolved. I have send an email about this
> in a separate thread "APE6EVM and Runtime PM".
> 
> I believe it may be possible to add support for the lager board
> to the consolidated defconfig once I am able to bring that board up,
> which should be rather soon. The lager board does not currently
> have a defconfig.
> 
> Morimoto-san, I suspect it may be possible to add support for the
> bockw board to the consolidated defconfig if its boot loader supports
> booting using a zImage. In this case even though the base memory address
> is not the same as the boards above it should be possible to specify
> the base address from the boot loader. As I do not have a bockw board
> I am wondering if you could investigate this.
> 
> Simon Horman (7):
>   ARM: shmobile: prune defconfig
>   ARM: shmobile: make defconfig canonical
>   ARM: shmobile: Add kzm9d to consolidated defconfig
>   ARM: shmobile: Add mackerel to consolidated defconfig
>   ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Remove armadillo800eva defconfig
>   ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Remove kzm9d defconfig
>   ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Remove mackerel defconfig
> 
>  arch/arm/configs/armadillo800eva_defconfig |  153 ---------------------------
>  arch/arm/configs/kzm9d_defconfig           |   88 ----------------
>  arch/arm/configs/mackerel_defconfig        |  156 ----------------------------
>  arch/arm/configs/shmobile_defconfig        |   51 +++++----
>  4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 420 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/configs/armadillo800eva_defconfig
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/configs/kzm9d_defconfig
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/configs/mackerel_defconfig

Magnus,

ideally I would like to queue-up this series and request
it be included in v3.10 as a path to add defconfig support for the lager
baord (added as an 8th patch after my original posting of the series).

Can I get some feedback from you?