From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757464Ab1JDP56 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:57:58 -0400 Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.66]:38682 "EHLO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756701Ab1JDP55 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:57:57 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 98.234.237.12 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/vLPOpn9YtvtlNqByMVr/v Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 08:57:52 -0700 From: Tony Lindgren To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "Cousson, Benoit" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "Shilimkar, Santosh" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/30] ARM: omap: add board autoselection Message-ID: <20111004155752.GT6324@atomide.com> References: <1317566760-25681-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <5055144.Y0IUdMEWXQ@wuerfel> <20111003182649.GC6324@atomide.com> <201110040944.13205.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201110040944.13205.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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