From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 19 Nov 2017 04:43:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-pf0-x244.google.com ([IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::244]:33468 "EHLO mail-pf0-x244.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23990428AbdKSDndkrsPF (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2017 04:43:33 +0100 Received: by mail-pf0-x244.google.com with SMTP id a84so4821155pfl.0; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:43:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=caEm0XBgCPgdI2oENmWUsGaXt67qc5KQN7IrFijH2oA=; b=tnxQiCQc16Pe9tGHN2P4fA8DSjYlSuocwC4kB6LYkDZjeg+XhZtIhLo7w5HiVsiTDg vh4UiJP/JWuyuVgClNLiP8MHdJ/92HnGiFKNPQ14z4hDuO+dA/iCMOxUk+TmGeeyQnH4 uVriIPlDaqFPsbpS8eGoc806+Gu12jTdOTL3bBpu7wQyuhHrHPFsiebSY2J3Xw/W7E2c iC5YuSh0t7nck7PkJpgVodASaaPQuAs0DjmD5MAtpHbsMRkhbdzhoKICaLpfNSgBL7wW zu5Bfws0CXRv5S+kNSSA7zuVmC20HUVOAAXej2gz3h9GUuaseifTjIg+wX5k4az9hLHc h76g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=caEm0XBgCPgdI2oENmWUsGaXt67qc5KQN7IrFijH2oA=; b=kLvLAdddo9TPVYz0cnihzBemFNCLGZ0tviFzmdGAIZ1tI1pK8jqRzeILzUiPMA54iR PLiRRnGKm9C1velHOv14vpzWlZIv7JQsANCMHkZc8f0mQ6NulXupULkbLka25IJQYRWA XmAEISgQxJ9IBCeWkzUsrTLaHqhW8lG/viURfzszmvzqu3SzVdisv6U4a+DIuJHxIWsf vBo0rxAzTtvNpgDaPMBL5zc9GO0qXSuPqcVeTw+f/fObqTRbl6dJNTkCsOPOfxG8x73S L+uzdV4suXxrb8i3NVBAuuLJrUwsxt0CaN+XDJRnnE4yh1bI3pqqYvzFL8WU9UZ+PO0/ YAyw== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX6BXYl5AY2S/XNX3ebwMKNYT1j9LsoxQfv10j/hyYW2EqvgGGhj /tCAYuqWvxTSh4DVdwjxIzg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMZHWEeSfCTlQhVnk8okv60lRMp3N2hcTv/YowoaZG+Hdupq0oP7UCIAtS2B2dvNAzNhhPcyBA== X-Received: by 10.159.230.13 with SMTP id u13mr9857529plq.226.1511063007079; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:43:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (108-223-40-66.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net. [108.223.40.66]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k2sm12508401pff.126.2017.11.18.19.43.25 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:43:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:43:25 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck To: Paul Burton Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [22/26] MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support Message-ID: <20171119034325.GA17384@roeck-us.net> References: <20160826153725.11629-23-paul.burton@imgtec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160826153725.11629-23-paul.burton@imgtec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 61004 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: linux@roeck-us.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:37:21PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote: > Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by > making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the > MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made > for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be > changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to > followon patches. > > Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in > kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but > nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by > mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere & map > itself appropriately. > > Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using > scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc > makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg. > differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for > differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of > defconfig files. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton Guess it is known that this patch causes failures when building "allmodconfig" on test systems such as 0day; it was reported by 0day some two months ago. nevertheless, the patch found its way into mainline without fix. Does anyone care, or should I simply disable "allmodconfig" test builds for mips ? Guenter