From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: defconfig for panda Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:39:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20120330213930.GC8240@atomide.com> References: <1F91D012-8308-45BB-83AD-90E52D472AC2@kernel.crashing.org> <20120330184859.GB8240@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:57497 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936205Ab2C3Vjf (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:39:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Kumar Gala Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Balbi * Kumar Gala [120330 14:14]: > > On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > * Kumar Gala [120329 12:24]: > >> As I'm new to the OMAP community this might be a stupid question but trying to just build and run a stock v3.3 kernel on a pandaboard. In doing so it seems as if some basic drivers are not enabled in omap2plus_defconfig for the board. I'm trying to figure out if this is normal for some reason or just an oversight. > >> > >> For example, USB and USB ethernet (SMC95xx). I notice the linaro kernel tree introduces an omap4_defconfig, so just wondering should I send patches to omap2plus_defconfig or what? > > > > We can add those to omap2plus_defconfig for sure, but let's have > > them added as modules. Then distros can use that easily in a > > standard way using initramfs-tools etc. > > > > Let's not change the drivers that are currently built in if they're > > needed for mounting mmc or nfsroot. Those can be changed later on. > > I'll work up a patch, however I was doing this as I was trying to get NFS root working and thus would need USB + USB ethernet compiled in and not as modules for panda. Is that ok? Maybe, let's take a look how much bigger the kernel becomes. Also we need to check if the same EHCI configuration works for omap3/4. Tony