[PATCH v3 0/3] Separate generic header usage from ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Jun 7 10:04:40 EDT 2013


On Friday 07 June 2013 16:00:47 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Doesn't the explicit dependency of CONFIG_MMU for ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM 
> > mean that randconfig builds still work, even without the changes below?
> > 
> > Apologies if I'm missing a use-case here!
> 
> I am somewhat annoyed by the fact that I had to disable ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
> for !MMU kernels in order to get 'make randconfig' to work and I would rather
> allow it and fix the bugs.

To expand on this a bit more: I want to eventually make ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
mandatory for all modern platforms, in particular anything ARMv6 and ARMv7
based. Forcing all !MMU-kernels to be !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM means we won't
get there unless we disallow !MMU on modern platforms.

	Arnd



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