Re: Linux-omap builds blog

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Hi,

* Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@xxxxxxxxxxx> [080229 12:03]:
> Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > * Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [080229 05:29]:
> >> * Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> [080229 02:49]:
> >> > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:07:52PM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> >> > >  
> >> > > > > > That build blog is missing something critical:  builds for
> >> > > > > > all OMAP platforms in ** MAINLINE ** kernels.  Not just the
> >> > > > > > Linux-OMAP tree.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > ...
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > It already exists for mainline, thanks to the people from Simtec:
> >> > > > > http://armlinux.simtec.co.uk/kautobuild/
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > Then maybe the OMAP build blog should link to that too, so
> >> > > > there's one-stop-shopping for OMAP related kernel build problems.
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > > As regards the H3 case, maybe I've look at it too quick but there's no
> >> > > > > defconfig  in mainline and it's not the only one :( Having the missing
> >> > > > > defconfigs merged would help noticing build breakages.
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > Good point.
> >> > > 
> >> > > Yes, there are a lot of defconfigs are missing including apollon in mainline.
> >> > > 
> >> > > How about to add missing defconfigs to mainline to work both mainline and omap tree?
> >> > 
> >> > Sounds good - and I'd suggest aiming at getting them into 2.6.25 and 
> >> > trying to get them into Linus' tree soon.
> >> 
> >> We could have one generic config covering all 15xx and 16xx boards
> >> rather than add all them separately. This would provide the same build
> >> info as multiple board configs and save some Kautobuild cycles.
> >
> > Having one omap_1xxx_defconfig with all possible boards also helps with the
> > issue that some boards are missing drivers in mainline kernel to make
> > them usable.
> 
> Why not. What matters is that there's a defconfig. Being able to boot a
>  kernel made with this config would be nice but I don't know if this can
>  be a show-stopper.
> What's the next step ? Are you sending a defconfig to RMK ?

Yeah, I'll post a multi-omap config to linux-arm-kernel, let's see if we can
still add that before 2.6.25. Then after 2.6.25 we can add new custom config
files for boards that are usable with mainline kernel.

Regards,

Tony
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