Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265696AbUFOPxV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:53:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265736AbUFOPxV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:53:21 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:2832 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265696AbUFOPxU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:53:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:53:14 +0100 From: Russell King To: Tom Rini Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: default kernel image Message-ID: <20040615165314.A7666@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Rini , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds References: <20040614204029.GA15243@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040614204405.GB15243@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040614220549.L14403@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040615044020.GC16664@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040615093807.A1164@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040615153836.GC11113@smtp.west.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040615153836.GC11113@smtp.west.cox.net>; from trini@kernel.crashing.org on Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:38:36AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1075 Lines: 22 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:38:36AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > I think what Sam was saying is that you document what boards are > supported by what firmwares, in the Kconfig. But what I don't think Sam > saw would be just how ugly that's going to look (and become another > point where every new board port touches, and possibly conflicts with > another new board port). Indeed - however, take a peek at arch/arm/tools/mach-types - that's a list of the various machines which the ARM kernel may or may not have been ported to. Something suggests that creating a list of machine types in the Kconfig help documentation will probably be unmanageable. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/