Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Kconfig: Set default value for the "Kernel code model"

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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:52:16AM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:

(Adding the kconfig maintainer and mailing list to cc.)

> Certain randconfigs may not select neither CONFIG_32BIT nor
> CONFIG_64BIT which can lead to build problems and to the following
> Kbuild warning:
> 
> .config:154:warning: symbol value '' invalid for PHYSICAL_START
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@xxxxxxxxxx>

Systems are supposed to set if they support 32 bit kernels and/or 64 bit
kernels in arch/mips/Kconfig.  The behaviour you're reporting happens
if the default system (which happens to be SGI_IP22) supports both
kernel models, that is SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL and
SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL are set.  Then "make randconfig" will generate
a .config with neiher CONFIG_32BIT nor CONFIG_64BIT set.

Just defaulting to CONFIG_32BIT as in your patch
http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5377/ isn't really a good solution
because for some platforms 32 bit kernels, for others 64 bit kernels are
preferred so I tried to implement something like

choice
        prompt "Kernel code model"
        default 32BIT if SYS_32BIT_KERNEL_PREFERRED
        default 64BIT if SYS_64BIT_KERNEL_PREFERRED

and have individual platforms set their preferred kernel variant.  And
I got more odd Kconfig behaviour, getting both choice values 32BIT and
64BIT set for some platforms.

Another variant that only uses a single auxilliary symbol,
SYS_64BIT_KERNEL_PREFERRED like this:

choice
        prompt "Kernel code model"
        default 32BIT if !SYS_64BIT_KERNEL_PREFERRED
        default 64BIT if SYS_64BIT_KERNEL_PREFERRED

still results in

CONFIG_32BIT=y
CONFIG_64BIT=y

So I'm not quite certain how to obtain the desired behaviour - but I appears
highly unobvious to buggy on kconfig's side.

Michal, can you shed some light?

  Ralf
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