Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:13:03 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: ARM defconfig files |
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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:
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