[PATCH v4 REPOST 1/5] ARM: l2x0/pl310: Refactor Kconfig to be more maintainable

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Dec 14 13:15:00 EST 2011


* Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru at gmail.com> [111214 03:31]:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:39:37AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > Making CACHE_L2X0 depend on (huge list of MACH_ and ARCH_ configs)
> > is bothersome to maintain and likely to lead to merge conflicts.
> > 
> > This patch moves the knowledge of which platforms have a L2x0 or
> > PL310 cache controller to the individual machines.  To enable this,
> > a new MIGHT_HAVE_CACHE_L2X0 config option is introduced to allow
> > machines to indicate that they may have such a cache controller
> > independently of each other.
> > 
> > Boards/SoCs which cannot reliably operate without the L2 cache
> > controller support will need to select CACHE_L2X0 directly from
> > their own Kconfigs instead.  This applies to some TrustZone-enabled
> > boards where Linux runs in the Normal World, for example.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
> 
> For CNS3xxx bits:
> 
> Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru at gmail.com>

For omap:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>



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