From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Pull request: removal of most instances of mach/memory.h
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:38:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110926223810.GA23680@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1109261514330.2718@xanadu.home>
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 04:00:11PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > ARM: mach-ep93xx: remove mach/memory.h and Kconfig selection of SDRAM bank
> >
> > Are you planning to totally kill off ZBOOT_ROM too? Because removing
> > the zreladdr stuff is doing exactly that.
>
> It looks like ZBOOT_ROM is not used on that platform at all. However,
> the ability to have a single defconfig and binary for the whole platform
> is something that the mach-ep93xx maintainers are looking for. Having
> ZBOOT_ROM depend on and use CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET would probably makes
> sense eventually.
You miss the point. Removing zreladdr actively _prevents_ anyone from
then choosing to build a kernel with ZBOOT_ROM enabled targetted for one
platform if that's what they want, because the decompressor then loses
the information it needs to properly locate the kernel.
> > This also gives additional merge conflicts elsewhere, and while git
> > rerere makes some of them easy, the quantity is going to be a right
> > pain to deal with on a repeated basis.
>
> Again, I'm perfectly willing to use a different base for this series and
> fix the conflicts myself if you give me one.
That's difficult when there are a number of unstable branches involved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-07 3:13 Pull request: removal of most instances of mach/memory.h Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-13 12:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-20 17:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 13:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-26 13:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 14:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 19:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-26 20:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 20:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 22:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-26 23:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 23:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-27 0:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-27 0:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-27 7:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-27 12:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 22:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-09-26 23:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-26 23:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-26 23:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-10-04 18:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-10-17 0:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
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