From: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>, <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [22/26] MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:25:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171120102507.GD27409@jhogan-linux.mipstec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171119034325.GA17384@roeck-us.net>
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 07:43:25PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:37:21PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote:
> > Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by
> > making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the
> > MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made
> > for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be
> > changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to
> > followon patches.
> >
> > Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in
> > kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but
> > nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by
> > mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere & map
> > itself appropriately.
> >
> > Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using
> > scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc
> > makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg.
> > differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for
> > differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of
> > defconfig files.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
>
> Guess it is known that this patch causes failures when building
> "allmodconfig" on test systems such as 0day; it was reported by 0day
> some two months ago. nevertheless, the patch found its way into mainline
> without fix. Does anyone care, or should I simply disable "allmodconfig"
> test builds for mips ?
Hi Guenter,
I can't find any emails from 0day in relation to this patch (I've also
dug about on the kbuild-all archives without success). Could you link to
or quote the build failure you're referring to.
Thanks
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-20 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 15:36 [PATCH 00/26] MIPS generic kernels, SEAD-3 & Boston support Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 01/26] MIPS: PCI: Support for CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 02/26] MIPS: PCI: Make pcibios_set_cache_line_size an initcall Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 03/26] MIPS: PCI: Inline pcibios_assign_all_busses Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 04/26] MIPS: PCI: Split pci.c into pci.c & pci-legacy.c Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 05/26] MIPS: PCI: Introduce CONFIG_PCI_DRIVERS_LEGACY Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 06/26] MIPS: PCI: Support generic drivers Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 07/26] MIPS: Sanitise coherentio semantics Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 08/26] MIPS: dma-default: Don't check hw_coherentio if device is non-coherent Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 09/26] MIPS: Support per-device DMA coherence Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 10/26] MIPS: Print CM error reports upon bus errors Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 11/26] dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding Paul Burton
2016-09-02 12:34 ` Rob Herring
2016-09-02 13:59 ` Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 12/26] MIPS: CPC: Provide a default mips_cpc_default_phys_base Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 13/26] dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cdmm binding Paul Burton
2016-09-02 12:38 ` Rob Herring
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 14/26] MIPS: CDMM: Allow CDMM base address to be specified via DT Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 15/26] irqchip: mips-cpu: Replace magic 0x100 with IE_SW0 Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 16/26] irqchip: mips-cpu: Prepare for non-legacy IRQ domains Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 17/26] irqchip: mips-cpu: Introduce IPI IRQ domain support Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 18/26] MIPS: smp-mt: Use CPU interrupt controller " Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 19/26] MIPS: Stengthen IPI IRQ domain sanity check Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 20/26] MIPS: Adjust MIPS64 CAC_BASE to reflect Config.K0 Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 21/26] MIPS: Support generating Flattened Image Trees (.itb) Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 22/26] MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support Paul Burton
2017-11-19 3:43 ` [22/26] " Guenter Roeck
2017-11-20 10:25 ` James Hogan [this message]
2017-11-20 14:03 ` Guenter Roeck
2017-11-21 0:02 ` [PATCH] MIPS: Fix CPS SMP NS16550 UART defaults James Hogan
2017-11-21 3:32 ` Guenter Roeck
2017-12-25 17:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 23/26] MIPS: generic: Convert SEAD-3 to a generic board Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 24/26] dt-bindings: Document img,boston-clock binding Paul Burton
2016-08-26 17:44 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-08-30 15:53 ` Paul Burton
2016-09-02 12:54 ` Rob Herring
2016-09-02 13:33 ` Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 25/26] clk: boston: Add a driver for MIPS Boston board clocks Paul Burton
2016-08-26 17:41 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-08-30 15:06 ` Paul Burton
2016-08-26 15:37 ` [PATCH 26/26] MIPS: generic: Support MIPS Boston development boards Paul Burton
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