Heads up: Linus plans to kill ARM defconfigs

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Jun 4 02:10:36 EDT 2010


* Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> [100604 04:35]:
> 
> Also, we are now working on a single kernel for multiple sub-arch (at least
> what Nicolas and I am doing now, and welcome to join us). It's tough (the
> way to handle different phys_offset is only the tip of the iceberg) and seems
> now more and more necessary. so hopefully by the end of the day, we may
> possible end up with only very few defconfig.

Great, do you have some git branch for that somewhere?

Parallel to dealing with different phys_offset we can also try combining
some two ARM platforms that have the same phy_offset. That already exposes
tons of conflicting defines that need to be sorted out..

Regards,

Tony



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