From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:43685 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754243Ab0FCSNe (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:13:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:13:03 +0100 From: Russell King Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files Message-ID: <20100603181303.GB25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20100603074548.GA12104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100603164623.GM30622@atomide.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100603164623.GM30622@atomide.com> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kevin Hilman , Daniel Walker , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 07:46:23PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Compiling in multiple ARM platforms is trickier, we would have to get > rid of the duplicate defines like NR_IRQS, then have some common clock > framework etc. Then figure out some way to get rid of Makefile.boot. > Russell probably has some other things in mind that would have to be > changed to make this happen. - Find someway to handle the wide variety of interrupt controllers. - Be able to handle any multitude of V:P translations, including non-linear alongside linear transations. - Different PAGE_OFFSETs - Different kernel VM layouts allowing for a variety of different ioremap region sizes and so the list goes on... > That way maybe you can wait a bit longer for the other defconfigs > and as an extra bonus I won't get flamed for removing these omap > defconfigs ;) Note that Linus is talking about removing all but one or two ARM defconfigs - which means your omap3_defconfig will probably be eventually culled. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: