[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/4] kconfig: arm: introduce symbol for ARM CPUs

Albert ARIBAUD
2014-10-28T07:01:54Z

Hello Masahiro,

On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:23:42 +0900, Masahiro YAMADA
<yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
>
> 2014-10-28 2:09 GMT+09:00 Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>:
> >> Tom and Albert,
> >>
> >> If Georges fixes those problems, is it possible to apply it shortly on
> >> the mainline?
> >> (directly u-boot/master? or via u-boot-arm/master?)
> >
> > I'm ok with this patch going in (through either tree). However:
> >
> >> Since this patch easily causes conflicts, it should not get stuck for
> >> a long time.
> >
> > I'm not sure I'm getting this right. Do yo mean that once the patch is
> > in, it should be easy to detect and iron out issues because if some
> > boards are broken, their users will react promptly?
>
> Yes.
>
> If some conflicts happen, CONFIG_SYS_CPU will not be set correctly
> and those boards will fail to build.
> User will notice the issue soon.

I often run 'buildman ... aarch64 arm' as a measure of the cleanliness
of the ARM repo. Would just applying this patch automatically cause lots
of ARM boards to fail building?

> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada

Amicalement,
--
Albert.