* Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [100603 21:07]: > 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 Some of these could be handled by allowing building a seprate instance for each platform compiled in. Maybe we could set them up with symlinks. How about a minimal generic relocatable ARM kernel and then we load the platform support as a module from ramdisk? :) > and so the list goes on... Yeah.. > > 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. Yes but I also think we need to do something about this. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
