From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:57:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 26/30] ARM: omap: add board autoselection In-Reply-To: <201110040944.13205.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1317566760-25681-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <5055144.Y0IUdMEWXQ@wuerfel> <20111003182649.GC6324@atomide.com> <201110040944.13205.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20111004155752.GT6324@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Arnd Bergmann [111004 00:10]: > On Monday 03 October 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Arnd Bergmann [111003 02:20]: > > > On Monday 03 October 2011 11:27:44 Cousson, Benoit wrote: > > > > > > > > > > In the long run, I'd hope we can just get rid of these for subarchitectures > > > > > that support device tree probing and make the device tree based machine > > > > > description unconditional. > > > > > > > > This is really our goal, we will have soon the board-generic.c for that, > > > > someone will just have to migrate these ~30 board files to device tree > > > > DTS files > > > > > > For the purpose of build-time validation using randconfig, there is no > > > problem in keeping some board files forever, as long as the generic board > > > file is always built-in. > > > > Yes please leave out the list so we don't need to constantly update it. > > Let's just always build in MACH_OMAP_GENERIC. > > That's what I had initially, but now that board file has become > omap2-specific and no longer works on omap3-only or omap4-only > configurations. Will send a pull request for basic DT bootstrap support from Benoit that fixes that. So maybe let's sort that out first, then always select it? Regards, Tony