From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:41:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100603184104.GC25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275589230.23384.19.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com>
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:20:30AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> I don't see how we can do without defconfigs altogether tho. I mean , if
> you want to run a Beagle board or a Nexus one we can't just give the
> users a slim ARM config and let them troll through 1000's of drivers
> trying to find just those ones that work on their given board.
Well, Linus does have a point - I can't start a new with Kconfig and
generate a working defconfig first time mainly because of the
thounds of options there.
What I can do is get the ARM side of the configuration right, since
for the majority of cases the only thing that needs doing is selecting
the platform class and the board itself.
The problem comes with driver configuration, where you have to go
through lots of menus to find all the drivers for the platform/SoC.
That's the tedious bit, and more often than not it takes several
attempts to get everything that's necessary.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-03 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20100603074548.GA12104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-03 14:48 ` ARM defconfig files Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 16:46 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-03 18:13 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 21:33 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-03 22:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-04 4:59 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-04 0:23 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-06-04 4:53 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-04 1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-04 5:29 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-04 6:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-06-04 6:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-06-04 8:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-03 16:53 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-08 15:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-06-08 16:37 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 18:10 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 18:53 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 19:20 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 19:35 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 19:45 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 19:49 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 19:57 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 20:06 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 20:18 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 20:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-04 1:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-03 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 21:17 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-03 22:15 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-04 5:18 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-06-04 11:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-06-03 22:24 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-05 14:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-05 14:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-05 16:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-03 21:48 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-04 0:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-06-04 12:39 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-05 13:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-03 20:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-03 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-06 3:28 ` david
2010-06-03 18:20 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 18:30 ` Al Viro
2010-06-03 19:26 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-14 8:32 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-06-30 10:40 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 15:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 17:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-12 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 18:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 19:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 19:50 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-13 7:07 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-13 8:07 ` optimized script [Was: ARM defconfig files] Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-13 18:04 ` Olof Johansson
2010-07-13 23:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-13 18:32 ` ARM defconfig files Grant Likely
2010-07-12 19:59 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 20:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 19:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 20:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-12 20:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 23:05 ` David Brown
2010-07-12 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 23:34 ` David Brown
2010-07-13 0:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-14 9:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-07-14 13:20 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-14 17:37 ` Tony Luck
2010-07-13 18:32 ` Rob Landley
2010-07-12 20:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-12 20:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-14 9:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-03 18:41 ` Russell King [this message]
2010-06-03 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-06 3:53 ` david
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