--text follows this line-- On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:08:25 +0200, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:04:13PM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote: > > I understand. That being said, Linus has made it well known that > > defconfigs will not be an option going forward. Have we found another > > I never mentioned defconfigs here. > Certainly, I was trying to point out that there is no good way to package a configuration for a given board, which definitely increases the learning curve for a board integrator. > > means of selecting the basic drivers necessary to get a fully functional > > board? Perhaps a CONFIG_MACH_OMAP3_BEAGLE_CORE option selecting the > > necessary driver for a fully functional board would be a solution. I > > I'll leave this for Tony to decide, but I don't like your proposal. > Fair enough. > So you're saying that when you're building a kernel for you > laptop/desktop you don't have to get a menuconfig and choose the drivers > you want to compile ? I dare to doubt that. > On the whole x86 hardware is far more uniform than ARM hardware. There is a good reason why there used to be so many defconfigs for ARM in the tree. Cheers, - Ben -- 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
