* Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> [141224 07:52]: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 01:53:46PM +0200, Igor Grinberg wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 12/23/14 18:19, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 09:30:45AM +0200, Igor Grinberg wrote: > > >> Hi Felipe, > > >> > > >> On 12/22/14 20:05, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > >> > > >> [...] > > >> > > >>> CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y > > >>> -CONFIG_ATA=y > > >>> -CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM=y > > >>> -CONFIG_MD=y > > >>> +CONFIG_ATA=m > > >>> +CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM=m > > >> > > >> Isn't this needed for the rootfs on SATA devices? > > > > > > there's no known boards with rootfs on SATA. Until then, we can reduce > > > the size. > > > > What makes you say so? > > The decision for rootfs on SATA is taken dynamically. > > OMAP5 boards (specifically cm-t54) can have rootfs on SATA... > > I'll leave the decision to Tony. Even though they _can_, they really > don't and IIRC, OMAP5's SATA has so many silicon errata that it'd be > annoying to find that special device which works (e.g it can't negotiate > lower speeds with SATA III devices and it won't support SATA I). > > As of today, we don't know of anybody really shipping anything with > rootfs on SATA and distros would rather ship initiramfs than a giant > zImage anyway. > > Tony, your call. I think we should move omap2plus_defconfig to be mostly modular and usable for distros as a base. Most distros prefer to build almost everything as loadable modules. And my preference is that we should only keep the minimum rootfs for devices and serial support as built-in and rely on initramfs for most drivers. And slowly move also the remaining built-in drivers to be loadable modules. The reasons for having drivers as loadable modules are many. It allows distros to use the same kernel for all the devices without bloating the kernel. It makes developing drivers easier as just the module needs to be reloaded. And loadable modules protect us from cross-framework spaghetti calls in the kernel as the interfaces are clearly defined. Are there people really using SATA as rootfs right now on omaps? If it's only something that will be more widely used in the future, then I suggest we make it into a loadable module, and presume initramfs and loadable module also for any new devices. The same way x86 has been doing with distros for years. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
