Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754424Ab0FCSNd (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:13:33 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:43684 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752025Ab0FCSNc (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:13:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:13:03 +0100 From: Russell King To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kevin Hilman , Daniel Walker , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files Message-ID: <20100603181303.GB25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20100603074548.GA12104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100603164623.GM30622@atomide.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100603164623.GM30622@atomide.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1343 Lines: 33 On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 07:46:23PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Compiling in multiple ARM platforms is trickier, we would have to get > rid of the duplicate defines like NR_IRQS, then have some common clock > framework etc. Then figure out some way to get rid of Makefile.boot. > Russell probably has some other things in mind that would have to be > changed to make this happen. - Find someway to handle the wide variety of interrupt controllers. - Be able to handle any multitude of V:P translations, including non-linear alongside linear transations. - Different PAGE_OFFSETs - Different kernel VM layouts allowing for a variety of different ioremap region sizes and so the list goes on... > That way maybe you can wait a bit longer for the other defconfigs > and as an extra bonus I won't get flamed for removing these omap > defconfigs ;) Note that Linus is talking about removing all but one or two ARM defconfigs - which means your omap3_defconfig will probably be eventually culled. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- 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/