[PATCH 26/30] ARM: omap: add board autoselection

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Oct 4 03:44:13 EDT 2011


On Monday 03 October 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> [111003 02:20]:
> > On Monday 03 October 2011 11:27:44 Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In the long run, I'd hope we can just get rid of these for subarchitectures
> > > > that support device tree probing and make the device tree based machine
> > > > description unconditional.
> > > 
> > > This is really our goal, we will have soon the board-generic.c for that, 
> > > someone will just have to migrate these ~30 board files to device tree 
> > > DTS files 
> > 
> > For the purpose of build-time validation using randconfig, there is no
> > problem in keeping some board files forever, as long as the generic board
> > file is always built-in.
> 
> Yes please leave out the list so we don't need to constantly update it.
> Let's just always build in MACH_OMAP_GENERIC.

That's what I had initially, but now that board file has become
omap2-specific and no longer works on omap3-only or omap4-only
configurations.

	Arnd



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