From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751247AbdKTK0I (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 05:26:08 -0500 Received: from 19pmail.ess.barracuda.com ([64.235.150.244]:44341 "EHLO 19pmail.ess.barracuda.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751075AbdKTK0G (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 05:26:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:25:07 +0000 From: James Hogan To: Guenter Roeck CC: Paul Burton , , Ralf Baechle , Subject: Re: [22/26] MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support Message-ID: <20171120102507.GD27409@jhogan-linux.mipstec.com> References: <20160826153725.11629-23-paul.burton@imgtec.com> <20171119034325.GA17384@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171119034325.GA17384@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-Originating-IP: [192.168.154.110] X-BESS-ID: 1511173509-637138-21356-324272-1 X-BESS-VER: 2017.14-r1710272128 X-BESS-Apparent-Source-IP: 12.201.5.28 X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Score: 0.60 X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.187128 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------- 0.00 BSF_BESS_OUTBOUND META: BESS Outbound 0.60 MARKETING_SUBJECT HEADER: Subject contains popular marketing words X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Status: SCORE=0.60 using account:ESS59374 scores of KILL_LEVEL=7.0 tests=BSF_BESS_OUTBOUND, MARKETING_SUBJECT X-BESS-BRTS-Status: 1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > 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