On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:38:36AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2012, Stephen Warren wrote: > > > > From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Tegra's uncompress and debug-macro.S communicate to each-other. Hence, > > we can't be left without uncompress.h in a multi-platform enabled kernel, > > or we'll lose features. This series allows uncompress.h to be used in a > > multi-platform kernel, restores the mvebu uncompress.h, and finally moves > > the Tegra debug macros into the common location. The series as mainly an > > RFC due to the outstanding question of where to put Tegra's <mach/iomap.h> > > in the final patch. > > > To follow up on the IRC discussion we had yesterday leading to this patch > set, I had another idea of how to handle the same: Since the decompressor > code is actually fairly separate from the kernel, we could also build > multiple versions of it, and link in the same compressed vmlinux. That rubbishes the idea of a single kernel though, which is to give distros a single kernel image that they can boot on different ARM platforms. They want a single kernel binary that works everywhere, not one which they need to select the right binary to work on platform X. Yes, the _internal_ uncompressed bulk may be the same, but it would require distros to carry around N different kernel images for N different platforms. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
