Re: ARM defconfig files

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 08:30, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 03:02, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 19:13 +0100, Russell King wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Ok so multiple platforms in one kernel is a different subject and could
>
> Supporting multiple platforms matters a lot to keep everything (not just defconfigs)
> under control.
>
> Technically, on m68k we only need two defconfigs: sun3_defconfig (Sun 3 doesn't
> use a Motorola MMU) and multi_defconfig (which is the logical OR of all the other
> defconfigs, and which should work on all non-Sun 3).

Ah, I forgot...

But indeed, most of the churn when updating the defconfigs (hmm, it's
been a while I submitted an
update) is in the non-arch part: disabling zillions of new options we
don't want.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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