[GIT PULL] Renesas ARM-based platforms: new boards support for v3.5

[Olof Johansson]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday 14 May 2012, Magnus Damm wrote:
>> > Also, I would prefer to only see one or a couple of defconfigs that
>> > can provide full build coverage for the various SoCs and boards, that
>> > would contain the superset of the required drivers to boot the
>> > supported boards, etc.
>>
>> I can check with my superiors if we can phase our sh7367 support. If
>> so then we have only A8 and A9 in tree which should be easy to support
>> with a single kernel configuration. Does that sound like something
>> that would simplify things for you?
>
> I think there is no need to go that far. Just providing a defconfig for
> all boards that can already run a common image would be a good step
> forward.
>
> Is there a technical reason why you cannot build sh7367 together with
> the ARMv7 based machines? Most other platforms that have both ARMv6 and
> ARMv7 just build them together, you just can't combine them with any
> ARMv4/v5 platform.

Sorry for the delay in answer, Magnus -- agree with Arnd here.

To clarify; I wasn't asking for you to remove the non-v7 platforms,
just to see if you could trim down the shmobile defconfigs to a
smaller number by creating a superset of the supported boards in one
or two configs.


-Olof